I Wonder Why Whales And Dolphins Flip The Flaps Hb Kf

Answer all of the questions that children love to ask about these amazing creatures of the sea. Turn the page to follow a whale migration and watch dolphins play in the wake of a boat. Mighty whales swim deep beneath the ocean and graceful dolphins leap through the waves as the flaps are flipped in this beautifully illustrated book. Editorial Reviews From Booklist The I Wonder Why: Flip the Flaps series, aimed at readers younger than the publisher's ongoing I Wonder Why series, offers simply presented information illustrated by attractive watercolors. It also features a novelty format, consisting of half-page flaps alternating with the regular full pages. In this title, the pictures show kids whales and dolphins in varying poses (e.g., a whale heading to the surface to breathe and then exhaling through its blowhole). Using large type and short sentences, the book briefly covers topics like the nature of whales and dolphins and how they breathe, give birth, eat, talk, and travel. Three questions accompany each topic, most spot-on in focusing on what younger children want to know (Are whales and dolphins fish?). Sea blues and greens make an attractive background for the images, each usually tied to some specific bit of information. A solid choice for early nonfiction units. Grades 1-3. --Ilene Cooper About the Author Judy Allen is an award-winning author who has written more than forty-five books for children. Her novel Awaiting Developments won the U.K. Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the U.K. Friends of the Earth Award and was nominated for the U.K. Carnegie Medal. Mike Bostock is an award-winning children's illustrator. In the United Kingdom, he has received the Kurt Maschler Award, the Times Educational Supplement Junior Information Book Award, the Friends of the Earth Earthworm Award, and the Parents' Choice Illustration Award for his first picture book, Think of an Eel.