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Author_Claire Watts
Author_Hannah Wood
Author_Yayo Kawamura
big mammals
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curious kids
environment
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EYFS
forthcoming
key stage 1
natural history
oceans
science stories
sea life
stories for sharing
young scientists
Product details
- ISBN 9781526329158
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 242 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Little Hop loves stories. And she asks a lot of questions. Her curiosity leads to some rather exciting adventures! Join her to learn more about the world through beautifully illustrated stories.
In Tell Me a Story About: A Whale, we join Little Hop to follow the journey of a blue whale and her calf and discover more about these enormous animals and their ocean habitat.
And don't miss Little Hop's super science investigations with her best friends, Catkin and Flip Flap!
The Tell Me a Story About series includes:
- The Sun, a story about our solar system
- A T. rex, a story about dinosaurs
- A Sunflower, a story about plants
- A Spider, a story about minibeasts
- A Whale, a story about animals
- A Tractor, a story about vehicles
Claire Watts has written over fifty illustrated nonfiction children's books on topics as diverse as dinosaurs, model-making, Vikings, superheroes, deserts and maths. She loves to take big ideas and distil them so that they're understandable to a child audience. For every fact you include, you have to ask yourself, 'Will a child understand this?' 'Do I need to go back a step and explain?' When she is not writing or doing writing-related things, Claire works as a learning assistant and librarian in a primary school near her home in south-west Scotland. Yayo Kawamura, born in 1967, grew up between Germany and Japan. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she moved to Berlin where she studied communication design and now lives with her family. She has been working as a children's book artist since 2001 and has developed and illustrated over 100 books, games and non-books. Her series "Pepe and Milli" has sold 100,000 copies in Germany and over a million copies worldwide. Hannah is from England but grew up in the Netherlands and Norway. She returned to England to study politics and history at university, until the moment she finally saw the light and, after a spell as a graphic designer, followed her first love - illustration.
