Kate Messner & Brian Biggs - A Whale's Tale and the Otter's Side of the Story - At Conn Ave
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
About the Book:
Readers will laugh aloud at the silly antics of a pair of opinionated sea mammals in a tale presenting one side of a debate when read front-to-back and the other side when read back-to-front, slyly revealing the way identical facts can be used to support opposite positions.
A boastful whale and a showboating otter compete in a battle of words to prove that each is the greatest animal ever to swim the seas. Read one way, the first-person text brags about whales’ superiority; read the other way, it extols how much better otters are. Using true information about the two marine species to make both arguments, Kate Messner’s adroit text and Brian Biggs’s giggle-worthy artwork brilliantly illustrate how the same words can be used to express contradictory opinions when speakers have a one-sided view of the world. Includes factual back matter about language usage and the actual similarities of whales and otters.
About the Author and Illustrator:
Kate Messner, is a New York Times bestselling author, passionately curious and writes books that encourage kids to wonder. Kate's titles include both fiction and nonfiction; she writes award-winning picture books, easy readers, chapter book series, and novels for young readers. Her books are frequently nominated for state book award lists and have been honored with the E.B. White Read Aloud Award, Golden Kite and Crystal Kite Awards, Riverby Award for Natural History Writing, and Nerdy Book Club Awards. Kate's science themed books have also been selected as finalists for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize and named to the NSTA/CBC list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12. Kate is a frequent speaker at conferences for writers and educators and visits schools all over the world to talk with students about books, writing, and the power of curiosity.
Brian Briggs is an illustrator, designer, educator, and author based in Philadelphia. He has written and/or illustrated more than 75 children’s books, which have been enjoyed by imaginative adults and clever children around the world. Some of these books have been New York Times bestsellers, and some have received awards.
In addition, he has designed fonts, illustrated for hundreds of magazines and newspapers, created puzzles, raced bicycles, briefly appeared on Martha Stewart’s The Apprentice, served as a calligrapher for a princess, and, for a time, played the accordion quite well.
No comments:
Post a Comment