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The cover art isn't the best depiction of The Blue Whale's beauty. The facts and info are tremendously interesting and well done. The illustrations remind me of the incredible art of Pamela Zagarenski. It is one of my top 5 picturebooks of the year so far.
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As happens so often, a curious child opens a book and starts to read about whales. Along with the boy, readers will learn interesting facts about whales. The facts are fascinating in their own right, but since they are complemented by illustrations depicting the text, they are even more accessible to young readers and help them understand and easily digest the information that is provided here. For instance, one illustration shows 50 people standing inside the mouth of a whale, and another one d
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A little boy reads a book about blue whales and learns interesting facts presented in ways that are informative, entertaining, and 100% appealing to children.
The way the facts are graphically presented brought to mind the work of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, though the collage, paint, and colored pencil artwork gives each image the look and feel of a child's mental image as suggested by the text.
Highly recommended for PreK-2+.
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The way the facts are graphically presented brought to mind the work of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, though the collage, paint, and colored pencil artwork gives each image the look and feel of a child's mental image as suggested by the text.
Highly recommended for PreK-2+.
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Summary
A nonfiction picture book, The Blue Whale draws children into the life and world of this enormous whale by situating facts within a familiar context that is fun and engaging. Here, readers are given the actual size of an eye right on the page, and we are informed how understand this whale's body size in relation to trucks, cars, milk bottles, and hippos! With an accurate and engaging text, fully vetted by a blue whale expert, and lyrically lovely illustrations, The Blue Whale is a book th ...more
A nonfiction picture book, The Blue Whale draws children into the life and world of this enormous whale by situating facts within a familiar context that is fun and engaging. Here, readers are given the actual size of an eye right on the page, and we are informed how understand this whale's body size in relation to trucks, cars, milk bottles, and hippos! With an accurate and engaging text, fully vetted by a blue whale expert, and lyrically lovely illustrations, The Blue Whale is a book th ...more
I'm very torn -- I love the illustrations, amazing facts about whales and conversational style of the text. But there are no sources! No suggested readings! No author note about research or learning about whales! I just can't love a nonfiction book filled with cool information and no sources and that makes my librarian heart very sad.
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WOW! This is some amazing nonfiction writing. I really appreciate the comparisons that are shown in the text and the images. For example: as well as informing the reader that a blue whale can measure up to 100 feet, it goes on to explain that "this is the same length as a truck, a differ, a boat, a car, a bicycle, a motorcycle, a van and a tractor-all lined up." The accompanying illustrations shows all these vehicles lined up in a row." I love that the page discussing the eye explains that it is
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An informative and accessible picture book.
Great non-fiction picture book.
Jan 30, 2015
Anamaria
marked it as to-read
Feb 14, 2015
Dan
marked it as to-read
Apr 17, 2015
Wendy Garland
marked it as to-read
Aug 23, 2015
Angie
marked it as to-read
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