Flip Flap Ocean by Axel Scheffler
Published by Nosy Crow on June 12th 2018
ISBN: 978073699420
Pages: 28
Format: Picture Book Fiction
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Twelve different creatures from the sea are featured with rhyming descriptive text and colorful illustrations. Readers are asked figure out what sea creature is on each page. Next readers can utilize the split pages and create their own creature by combining various tops and bottoms. By doing so, over 100 made-up creatures can be imagined. When readers mix and match the pages, the names of the creatures, the illustrations and the rhyming descriptions change. Who has heard of an Octab? A made up creatures that is a combination of a crab and an octopus. Or perhaps a shurtle--a mix of shark and turtle? What fun! The book format is sturdy with spiral binding and heavy card stock papers. The Illustrations done in ink and watercolor are rich in color, sweet, yet playfully accurate. An entertaining book for toddlers and early readers.

Reviewed by Terri Bauld, Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library