The Marine Team

Mibo

by Jason Hook, Madeleine Rogers (Illustrator)

Teach your children about our aquatic friends with this fun and educational book. Five sea creatures – a shark, turtle, seahorse, seal and whale – are explored through rhyme, pictures and pull-out cards. With two spreads dedicated to each creature, adults will be able to read the short playful rhyme on each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them about their habits and environment. Children will then be able to pop out the card animals from the perforated pages contained in a pocket at the back of the book and create 3D figures simply by folding and adding a few dabs of glue. The inside of the dust jacket is printed full color with a graphical representation of the creatures’ environment. Children have the option of using this as a backdrop to create a marine scene, and there are also accessories to make and add to the scene.

Genres: Animals

24 pages, Board Book

Published August 9, 2016

About the author

Jason Hook has written many fiction and non-fiction books for children, including Where’s the Dragon? (Sterling), Wendy and the Wallpaper Cat (V&A Publishing) and The Marine Team (Button Books). His illustrated ‘verse a day’ fairy-tales can be found at jasonhookbooks.com.

Jason lives in Brighton, England, where he combines writing, editing and publishing with guitar playing, long walks and birdwatching, not all at the same time. His favourite authors include Roald Dahl, Mervyn Peake, Maurice Sendak, Lewis Carroll, Julia Donaldson, Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad.

Reviews

[Christine]

A little too factual & wordy for my 15 month old but he loves the size of these books & the pictures. After having gone to two aquariums recently he loves anything with marine life so I was happy we got this in his kid's meal.

[Ashley Lennox]

Very simple but filled with complex facts for littles.

[Rosalind Andrews]

I liked the pictures of all the different animals.