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By Kristen · 15 posts · 116 views
By Kristen · 15 posts · 116 views
last updated Feb 02, 2015 11:56AM
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This is an easy fiction-nonfiction pairing about whales, but also is a very sweet can't-find-my-parents story.
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As a group of whales prepares for migration, Little Blue has many questions for Papa about how it will all work. When the time comes, Little Blue gets a little over-excited exploring and loses his Papa. Thankfully they locate one another using their whale calls making this a reassuring book for animals and humans alike.
Mixed media illustrations are vibrant and offer readers many unique perspectives. This is a great bedtime read aloud that's sure to incite interest in whales. PreK-2. ...more
Mixed media illustrations are vibrant and offer readers many unique perspectives. This is a great bedtime read aloud that's sure to incite interest in whales. PreK-2. ...more
Fantastic use of color, with changing lines and perspective that give a strong sense of movement to the story. That "far below" page creeped ME out! The texture of the paper seems perfectly suited to an aquatic story, the whales are expressive without seeming overly anthropomorphized, and the dawn-to-dusk format is mimicked in the endpapers and the changing color scheme of the story (with a shift in the middle as Little Blue explores underwater).
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A simple and comfy story about a Papa and Baby whale. The illustrations are particularly beautiful.
Really more like 3.5 stars for the story but definitely 5+ stars for the illustrations!
My daughters really enjoyed this one. Illustrations were stunning.
Beautiful illustrations!
Mar 11, 2014
Kristen
marked it as to-read
Aug 29, 2014
Joshua Whiting
marked it as to-read
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Christine Turner
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