The whale's tale and the otter's side of the story a book to read from front to back and back to front
(2026)
By:
Messner, Kate
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
KIDS NEW PICTURE/STORIES/MESSNER,K
0 Holds on 2 Copies
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]
©2026
©2026
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063372627, 0063372622, 9780063372627, 0063372622
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A boastful whale and a showboating otter compete in a battle of words to prove that each is the greatest animal ever to swim the seas. Read one way, the first-person text brags about whales' superiority; read the other way, it extols how much better otters are. Using true information about the two marine species to make both arguments... [this reversible book illustrates] how the same words can be used to express contradictory opinions when speakers have a one-sided view of the world"--
Ages 4-8
Grades K-1