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Whole Whale

Karen Yin author Nelleke Verhoeff illustrator

Format:Board book

Publisher:Barefoot Books Ltd

Published:22nd Oct '24

Should be back in stock very soon

This board book is available in another edition too:

Whole Whale cover

"Recommended for early childhood collections, this brisk and funny rhyming story will be a hit at story times." -- The School Library Journal

A sloth, a moth, a skink, a skunk. Here comes a camel and a quail, but can we fit a whole blue whale? In this playful, silly read-aloud, readers will laugh and count along as 100 animals try to squeeze on the pages of the book, while learning that there's always room for one more to join.

  • Large board book format is perfect for little hands
  • Humorous ending features an expansive double gatefold
  • Educational endnotes list the 100 animals in the book

“The artwork is cheerful and bright with high-contrast colors, depicting wonderfully unusual animals like rooks, rhinos, crabs, koalas, tapirs, skinks, and quails, all interacting with joy . . . But perhaps the truest charm of this book lies in its language, rich with assonance, alliteration, and internal and end rhymes and liltingly cadenced with read-aloud rhythm” – Booklist
“Yin debuts with a colorful reminder about inclusion . . . Recommended for early childhood collections, this brisk and funny rhyming story will be a hit at story times” – The School Library Journal
“Yin’s precisely cadenced rhymes and artful alliteration are a joy to read. Verhoeff’s colorful images, which carry the weight of the denouement, also show the animals interacting and problem solving as part of a vibrant community” – Mombian

ISBN: 9798888592144

Dimensions: 220mm x 220mm x 21mm

Weight: 798g

32 pages