The Blue Whale
by Jenni Desmond
Enchanted Lion Books, 2015
This is a perfect ‘boys’ book that, with a kid-voice of awe and excitement, introduces the greatest mammal on earth, the blue whale. Readers learn a whale’s heart is the size of a small car, about 1,300 pounds and its tongue is three tons! They learn 50 people could fit inside a whale’s mouth. While a whale eats 35 million krill a day, its throat is only as wide as a grapefruit. The illustrations cleverly show all the whale details throughout the story and features ‘whales’ wherever possible, like the kitchen table is shaped like a whale. They even get a geography lesson thrown in. Targeted for the 4-7 year old, they will have fun reading it over and over to learn about the gigantic whale.
