Children will love the bright illustrations that feature lots of animals in their environments, from penguins on icebergs and fish in oceans to monkeys up trees and bears in the mountains! This truly is a wonderful book, from its plots to its sounds, your child will love it…and so will you!
The Snail and the Whale is an ideal story to read aloud to your child firstly because it’s lovely to listen to! This is because of the regular rhythm, rhyming couplets and other features such as alliteration. This book is a superb picture book for expanding children’s imagination of the world as it explores different lands over and under the sea. It also conveys the tale of bravery of the small snail as he tries to help his friend. The book sends a strong message about confidence and the moral that if we try hard enough anything is possible.
Julia Donaldson uses repetition of key words to reinforce the ideas of difference between the size of the snail and whale but emphasises that no matter what the size they can still be friends. The story uses colourful illustration to accompany the rhyme and gives a clear picture to the reader about where the friend’s travels have taken them. As the snail travels he begins to feel overwhelmed by the size of the world around him, but presented with a dilemma is able to help the huge humpback whale when it gets into trouble. The whale and snail go an exciting adventure around the world through star lit seas, icebergs and tropical lands. This book uses a simple but effective rhyme scheme to tell the tale of an unlikely friendship of a tiny snail and a humpback whale. Experiencing more of the big wide world makes the snail feel even smaller, but when the whale is landed in trouble, can she help? She hitches a lift with a whale who takes her to many distant lands with many different climates. Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Snail and the Whale’ is a wonderful tale about a tiny – but ambitious – snail who longs to see the world.
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