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Little Shark: Finger Puppet Book:
A new title in the bestselling finger puppet series! Tiny tots can enjoy swimming among the fish with Little Shark in this simple, comforting story. The book features a permanently attached plush finger puppet and peek-a-boo holes in every page, giving parents and children a fun, interactive way to play and read together.
- GenresChildrensPicture Books
12 pages, Board Book
First published February 19, 2013
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July 17, 2021
HAPPY SHARK WEEKEND!!
it floooooats! RRAARRRRRR!!!!!!
my first shark read of SHARK WEEK 2017!! and i have made a riffle list, too:
https://www.rifflebooks.com/list/237096
this is one of those finger puppet books where you pretend your fingie is a creature having adventures throughout the book, like little penis.
as a fun and formative finger puppet experience for kids, this is probably excellent.
as literature, it is somewhat lacking. not only does it seem to have taken its lessons in rhyme scheme from lang leav:
but this 116-word* book is studded with misinformation and demonstrates either a lack of responsibility or some willful self-deception on the shark’s part.
basically, this is about a lonely shark who wants a friend, but every time he approaches a fish, they swim away. this is the phrasing used:
All Little Shark wants
are a few nice friends,
but when they come near,
he always offends.
now, this makes it sound like he’s making racist jokes, to which fish are particularly sensitive, when in fact, it is much more likely that the offense comes when he TRIES TO EAT THEIR BODIES.
it is interesting to note that in this scenario, the fish approach him before he causes them to “flee,” but i don’t know that the journalism in this book can be trusted, considering that it later references a starfish as being “one of a kind,” which makes no biological sense, and insinuates that starfish are bioluminescent, which is true of very few of them, giving this book the dubious honor of being awarded "laziest research ever" in the finger puppet book category.
i do not think the discovery channel will ever include this on their list of must-read shark books, but there are worse places you could stick your finger this week, so i’ll round it up to four stars.
* or 118, depending on your take on “hide-and-seek.”
come to my blog!
it floooooats! RRAARRRRRR!!!!!!
my first shark read of SHARK WEEK 2017!! and i have made a riffle list, too:
https://www.rifflebooks.com/list/237096
this is one of those finger puppet books where you pretend your fingie is a creature having adventures throughout the book, like little penis.
as a fun and formative finger puppet experience for kids, this is probably excellent.
as literature, it is somewhat lacking. not only does it seem to have taken its lessons in rhyme scheme from lang leav:
but this 116-word* book is studded with misinformation and demonstrates either a lack of responsibility or some willful self-deception on the shark’s part.
basically, this is about a lonely shark who wants a friend, but every time he approaches a fish, they swim away. this is the phrasing used:
All Little Shark wants
are a few nice friends,
but when they come near,
he always offends.
now, this makes it sound like he’s making racist jokes, to which fish are particularly sensitive, when in fact, it is much more likely that the offense comes when he TRIES TO EAT THEIR BODIES.
it is interesting to note that in this scenario, the fish approach him before he causes them to “flee,” but i don’t know that the journalism in this book can be trusted, considering that it later references a starfish as being “one of a kind,” which makes no biological sense, and insinuates that starfish are bioluminescent, which is true of very few of them, giving this book the dubious honor of being awarded "laziest research ever" in the finger puppet book category.
i do not think the discovery channel will ever include this on their list of must-read shark books, but there are worse places you could stick your finger this week, so i’ll round it up to four stars.
* or 118, depending on your take on “hide-and-seek.”
come to my blog!
July 14, 2023
I feel like the octopus one taught me more about octopus this felt more depressing and not correct in how sharks live.
April 20, 2014
Pretty good read. I read it with my son who is almost 3 weeks old. I was totally surprised by the twist ending but he claims he saw it coming. We will have to read this one again soon.
September 28, 2024
Absolute banger, the finger puppet is an attention grabbing innovation and an improvement to the standard method of story telling.
August 9, 2021
Another in the Finger Puppet series. The semi-sly references to predation are amusing but otherwise, exactly the same as all the other Finger Puppet books. Just a creative way to get your index safely gnoshed upon.
March 21, 2019
My son loves the finger puppet 🤷🏼♀️
January 11, 2020
A cute little story about friendship. Allie loves playing with the puppet.
May 30, 2022
Super cute book
December 30, 2015
A book about making friends starring a built-in finger puppet shark?! Sign my nine-month-old up!
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