Books with title JONAH: AND THE WHALE

This Big book is ideal for shared reading. Derived from the award-winning My Very First Bible, the well known story from the book of Jonah is presented in simple words and illustrated with child-friendly paper collage illustrations. Notes are included for parents and teachers putting the story in context and giving ideas for discussion and exploitation of the text and illustrations. This book is published simultaneously with Noah and the Ark (0 7459 4944 4)

During the early 1600s, there was an active whaling industry in Canada. Whale oil was used to light the streets and buildings of European cities and to manufacture leather, wool, and soap. The baleen was used to make everything from carriage springs to corsets. Told from the point of view of a young Inuit boy named Tuk, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of Tuk's Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers, blown far from their usual whaling route. Both the hunters and the whalers prize the bowhead whale for different reasons. Together, they set out on a hunt, though they are all on new and uncertain ground. Scrupulously researched and vetted, this early chapter book inspires discussion about communication between two groups of people with entirely different world views, early whaling practices, and a productive partnership that also foreshadows serious problems to come. Simply and beautifully told, Tuk and the Whale includes a glossary, historical note, and recommendations for further reading.

Meet the craziest, cutest Alphaprints characters and their unlikely best friends in this joyful celebration of friendship. There’s little Wiggle the jellyfish and his biggest, bestest buddy, Whale, and King Louis the hungry crocodile with his shy friend, Chameleon―who disappears whenever Louis is really hungry! Young readers will love to meet the whole Alphaprints gang, and will be delighted by the funny, read-out-loud rhymes and bright, colorful scenes. But it is the characters themselves, made up of boldly colored fingerprints and everyday objects, who are the true stars of this Alphaprints show.