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Bently, Peter

The Shark in the Dark

32 pp. | Walker | June, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8027-9841-1 $15.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Ben Cort. When a shark comes looking for a snack, all the fish take refuge in a nearby sunken ship. There, a squid offers the suggestion that they band together to appear like a whale and scare the shark away. It's not the most original premise (see Leo Lionni's classic Swimmy), but the bouncy rhyming text, illustrated with deep-sea hues, carries the story along.
Reviewer: David Elzey

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