Shark in the Park!
Nick Sharratt
Published by David Fickling Books
24pp, 0-385-60469-6, £10.99 hbk novelty
Through his telescope Timothy keeps seeing what looks like a shark's fin but it turns out to be - when the page is turned and a wider-angled view revealed - a cat, a crow and Timothy's dad: not a shark in sight or is there? A story with all the child appeal you could wish for: a predictable, patterned rhyming text, peep holes, speech bubbles and a final twist in the tale, or should I say, fin, together with Sharratt's characteristic zesty illustrations. It was a big hit with my audience of four- and five-year-olds who were enthusiastically joining in on the first reading. Go back as they did to the first page and take another look ...
Reviewed in BfK No. 136 (September 2002) by Jill Bennett (JB)
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