LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Imagine meeting a hammerhead shark on a cruise! Well, now you don’t have to imagine because the incomparable Jeanne Willis has done it for us. Sadly, the young boy at the centre of her new picture book observes his fellow passengers and crew being rather mean to his friend the shark, even though Mark is perfectly lovely. The same happens on a trip ashore but Mark is able to prove his noble qualities when the boat taking everyone back to the ship hits a reef. There are messages about not making judgements based on prejudice, and about how even the strangest looking can be friendly underneath, but mostly this is just a sparkling seaborne adventure with some very special pals at its heart.
Adrian Reynolds goes all out with the illustrations, Mark looking particularly fine as the ship pulls into New York.
Andrea Reece
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My Mate Mark is a Hammerhead Shark! Synopsis
A hilarious and wholesome book that teaches us to not judge others by appearances, from multi-award winning author Jeanne Willis and illustrator Adrian Reynolds.
Mark the hammerhead shark doesn’t have it easy – unless he wears a disguise, waiters won’t serve him, and he can’t go anywhere without people screaming and running away or teasing him.
But when a little boy befriends him on a cruise ship holiday, he can see something in Mark that everyone else can’t… could Mark be a harmless hero?
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9781839130908 |
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2nd May 2024 |
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Jeanne Willis |
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Adrian Reynolds |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Paperback |
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32 pages |
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About Jeanne Willis
Jeanne Willis is an award-winning children's author and scriptwriter. She wrote her first book when she was five - a slim volume about cats written in pencil and stitched together with a painfully blunt needle so that it looked like a 'real' book. After that, there was no turning back. Having been fired from her Saturday job - selling cowboy boots on the Kings Road - for chewing gum, and after a brief career as a reptile vet's assistant, she worked as a copywriter and had her first picture book published at the age of 21 (which she wrote whilst pretending to be busy creating adverts for cognac).
She has since written over 300 books and has won several awards, which are arranged in the attic where she works, along with her collection of caterpillars, pink-toed tarantula skins and live locusts. Jeanne has a keen interest in Natural History and has lost count of the number of species featured in her books, including everything from slugs to sloths. She is currently into corvids - especially Nosy Crows.
Jeanne has won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize for Tadpole's Promise, the Nasen Special Needs Award for Susan Laughs, the Sheffield Children's Book Award for Who’s in The Loo and the Red House Children's Book Award for Bottoms Up. Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including Polly Pocket and The Slow Norris, and a pilot TV series for Dr Xargle.
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