Book excerpt: Mal the Lion cub wanted to be friends with all of the animals, but they were afraid and ran away. After all, he was a LION and lions have been known to eat the odd animal, or two! Written in lovely rhymes that will capture the imagination of the very young, and superbly illustrated by Myke Mollard, Mal the Lion is the first children's book by the gifted writer Jesse White. First Paperback edition