Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Source: I received a copy for review from the author
The book starts out talking about a fish called a tilapia. I enjoyed the information the author gave about the fish. It is one of my favorite types of fish to eat, yet until I read this book, I knew nothing about it. The story is about Mam, a mother tilapia who carries her babies in her mouth to keep them safe. She lets them out from time to time but makes them swim back in when danger is present. They all obey except little Joey. He likes hiding. One day they see a worm dangling from a hook. All of the babies except Joey swim into Mam’s mouth. Joey is about to take a bite of the worm when his mom slaps him with her fin. She tells him of the danger. The next day she is so determined to keep Joey in her mouth that she doesn’t see a net that has been dropped in front of her. When she cries out Joey swims out. Joey convinces his siblings to swim out and help to save their mom. You must read the book to find out how they save her. This was a wonderful book and there was even a link to the video book at the end of it.
Source: I received a review copy in exchange for my hones review
Maya & Filippo live and travel on the cruise ship the
Fun Princess, with their parents and cat. ON this trip we find them visiting
Ketchikan, Alaska. Maya wants to see whales on this trip. Their first tour stop
takes her and her brother to a native village. Filippo loved the totem poles,
but Maya thought they were boring. All she wanted to do was see a whale. She
listens to the story of one totem pole that was about a man trying to catch
fish. He wasn’t having any luck so he
pretended he had caught lots of different fish. He finally caught a salmon who
told him if he would put him back then he would soon have many fish. The Review
native put the salmon king back in the water and soon caught many salmon. Maya
listened to the story and decided to pretend she was watching whales. Id she get to see whales? I guess you’ll have
to read the book to find out. While you are at it this book also has a
wonderful matching coloring book. It is full of scenes from the book.
Genre: Children's Picture Book
Source: I received a review copy in exchange for my honest review
On this trip Maya and Filippo
travel to a small town in New Zealand called Tauranga. Maya slept in on this morning. Her brother
ate breakfast with his parents. He had five cups of chocolate mousse because
his parents weren’t paying attention.
When Maya got up there was none left. She blamed Filippo for eating it
all and he blamed her for his stomach ache.
Their mother made them leave the ship and explore Tauranga. They went
separate directions. Maya visited a Maori village and watched the dancers. One
of the dancers saw how sad she was. Maya
told her what had happened with her brother.
The dancer explained everyone was responsible for their own happiness
and how they reacted to things they didn’t like. Filippo visited a geyser. When a young boy gets mad at him because he
won’t play ball with him and he is bored, Filippo screams it is not his job to
make him happy. Can you guess what
lessons Maya and Filippo learn from this experience? Check out the book to find out.
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