The Lion Has Wings shot in 12 days, and completed in about four weeks, at a cost of just £30,000, a notable achievement in the times. Within days of its release, copies had been shipped to 60 countries. Although it is difficult to determine its actual impact on the public, "The Lion Has Wings" was considered a significant factor in persuading the British government to allow the film industry to continue to work, and the film was regarded as a model of how filmmakers could be an asset to the war effort. Like many propaganda films, "The Lion Has Wings" does not tell the
Where Crocodiles have Wings as Precious and the Boo Hag (S & S, 2005), and skip this offering. " "Booklist" also found the book a lower standard, writing "The nighttime adventure is less a story than a string of imaginative flights of fancy .. This is a far cry from McKissack's top-notch books reflecting ethnic culture; it's a mishmash of creatures with incongruous traits, fanciful but fairly frivolous." "Where Crocodiles have Wings" has also been reviewed by "Kirkus Reviews", and "Publishers Weekly", and "The Horn Book Magazine", Where Crocodiles have Wings Where Crocodiles have Wings is a 2005 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack.