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Shark and Lobster's Amazing Undersea Adventure

Shark has just learned some terrible news! There are enormous, fearsome creatures prowling around that are covered in stripes and full of teeth: TIGERS!

With a little help from Lobster's erroneous suggestions that tigers glow in the dark and are invisible until they eat you, the two friends manage to work the whole sea floor into a fort-building frenzy.

Seven hundred rocks, a musical number, and a kooky sea monster later Shark and Lobster have had the most exciting (and terrifying) day of their lives.

This hilarious book, Shark and Lobster's Amazing Undersea Adventure by Viviane Schwarz and colored by Joel Stewart is illustrated like a comic book. First person word bubbles and cartoony water-color style give this book a casual, light-hearted air that is hard not to love.

Aside from being incredibly fun, this book gives way to a wealth of activities; from finding out the truth about tigers (do they really glow in the dark? Are there any animals that do?) to creating our own sea monsters this book can really charge our imaginations and leave us asking questions (what in the world is a cuttlefish?!).

Probably one of the best aspects of Shark and Lobster's Amazing Undersea Adventure is how the fearsome predator of the seas, Shark, spends most of the story completely petrified, while his tiny friend Lobster is less scared than he is looking for some excitement; in fact, at one point he actually whines "I can't be SCARED when I'm BORED." This brilliant dichotomy makes Shark and Lobster an excellent resource for talking about our fears, especially if one of those is a fear of sharks. Most of all it shows us that with our friends, we can find strength.

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  1. Miss MounceSeptember 14, 2010 at 11:52 PM

    From your description, this books sounds hilarious! I would love to have the opportunity to read it aloud to a younger class and just watch them laugh uproariously...which I'm sure they would do :)

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  2. Mr. FulksSeptember 15, 2010 at 6:59 PM

    "Most of all it show us that with our friends, we can find strengh." This sounds like a great book. Like Amanda I would love to read this to child. Such a good message.

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  3. Miss MillsonSeptember 16, 2010 at 7:24 PM

    Such a cute story with a wonderful message! I can see how young students would enjoy discovering that even terrifying sharks have fears of their own. It would be a neat way to transition to a discussion about how children have a misconception that adults are fearless, which is entirely not true.

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