I Love Sharks, Too!

by Leanne Shirtliffe, Lorenzo Montatore (Illustrator)

Overview

Stevie likes sharks. Like a LOT. In response to everything his mom asks him, Stevie has an excellent shark fact in response.

“Brush your teeth, Stevie.”

“Mom, Mako sharks don’t have to brush their teeth because they are covered in fluoride.”

From morning to bedtime—you would think this might totally wear his mom down. But guess who likes, sharks, too?

The book is filled with tons of fun facts, and also information about different shark breeds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510708853
Publisher:	Sky Pony
Publication date:	06/06/2017
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Leanne Shirtliffe is an award-winning humor writer. She writes for the Huffington Post, Nickelodeon's humor site NickMom.com, and authored the book Don’t Lick the Mini Van (Skyhorse 2013). When she's not stopping her children from licking frozen flagpoles, Leanne teaches English to teenagers. You can read more about her misadventures at IronicMom.com.

Lorenzo Montatore has been passionate about drawing from an early age. Heavily influenced by old cartoons and comics, he developed his career working on books, zines, comics and magazines, always bringing a spark of humor and quirkiness to every story he worked on. He lives in Madrid, Spain.

Editorial Reviews

2017-03-29
A mother and her shark-enthusiast son don't quite see eye to eye.Young, white, redheaded Stevie wants nothing more than to act like a shark, especially if it annoys his mother. When his mother (also white) asks him to stop inhaling his pancakes at breakfast, Stevie pauses only to reply that "bull sharks tear apart food with their teeth. All fifty rows of them!" When she begs him to sit still, Stevie merely quips that whale sharks die if they stop moving. Throughout the entire day, Stevie's mom's earnest pleas to her son for good (or just human) behavior are met with fact after fact about sharks. But when the day comes to an end and Stevie settles down with a final sleepy whisper that he loves sharks, his mom quietly admits that she loves them too. Despite Montatore's illustrations subsumed in energy that aligns with Stevie's enthusiasm, the almost manic spreads seem to reflect his mother's frenzied, put-upon perspective, making the narrative more hers than Stevie's. Without any kind of transition from the narrative's conclusion, the remainder of the book showcases an epilogue of several more shark facts, and though each compares to a recognizable piece of kid life ("no early bedtime for them!"; "hide-and-seek champions!"), the two parts of the book feel unintegrated and spliced together. Fascinating shark information in a muddled package. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews