Once children have become familiar with the story they could tell it to you, using the pictures as a guide. It is fine if children not yet reading use their own words for this. Talk about the story Using voices or improvise instruments to make the sounds of a stormy sea. This is more fun if you do it together, perhaps recording your stormy sea sound effects. Paint a picture Noi was so happy to find his dad. They safely reach home and never fails to remember the story of the snowy night and how the storm whale rescued Noi, just like he rescued it last summer. A beautiful ending just like the last sequel. Noi with his dad The story of a girl, a whale and a friendship that will echo down the generations, from best-selling, award-winning picture book creator, Benji Davies, author of The Storm Whale.

Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. Noi, who was waiting patiently all this while, decided to look out for his dad in a boat. He put on his boots and stormed out of his house to find his dad. Noi was waiting for his dadThis summer after having written two books about The Storm Whale, and never having seen a whale in the wild, I decided it was about time that I did. My wife and I chose to visit Iceland – we had wanted to go there for a long time – and whilst there we would make a special trip to see some whales with our own eyes. I had heard that the best place in Europe to see whales, the whale-watching hotspot, was in the north of Iceland near a place called Húsavík. A simple but powerful story about loneliness and the love between a parent and child” – New York Times Noi lived with his fisherman father and their six cats in a small house by the sea. Every day his father would head out to sea on his boat, and the young boy would be on his own. Then one day, after a great storm, Noi found a baby whale washed up on shore. Determined to care for this stranded creature, Noi brought the whale home and put it in the bathtub. His understanding father, when he discovered the cetacean in the tub, realized that Noi had been lonely, but told him that they would have to return the whale to his ocean home all the same. WDC is delighted to be working with author and illustrator of The Storm Whale children’s’ books, Benji Davies, to help bring the wonder of whales and dolphins to children across the world through his tales of Noi and his friend, The Storm Whale.Benji recently spoke to WDC about his trip to see whales swimming wild and free in the waters off Iceland, and his connection with these magnificent creatures.

Fiction story or non-fiction book, the curious mind will always find questions and we should be prepared to answer them at any time. This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Soon, up ahead, we saw not a whale but hundreds of sea birds gathering above the surface of the water. They were circling and hovering then slipping into the foamy waves, which our guide knew meant only one thing – where there were birds there were fish and where there were fish there would be whales. It was feeding time.Children could make up their own story about Noi and the whale and what might happen if they meet again or you could make up one together. When children have made up their story they could write it down. See here for a special story sheet.

It took about 45 minutes to get there – that’s all it takes to fly right across Iceland, which is not a very big country. Once we landed it was only a short bus-ride toHúsavík, a sailing port with a beautiful view of snow covered mountains across the bay. This cookie is set by TVSquared to measure impressions, reach and outcomes across linear and digital TV. From that moment Noi and his dad started spending more time together and Noi enjoyed every moment he spent with his dad. A beautiful ending to this heartwarming story. Noi and his dad spending time together. Family is also at the heart of renowned novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s debut for children, Mama’s Sleeping Scarf (HarperCollins), with art by Joelle Avelino. Adichie became a mother in 2016 and has previously published a book of advice about how to raise a feminist daughter, Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her new picture book features a child called Chino, who enjoys playing with the hair scarf her Mama wears to bed while Mama goes to work and she stays home with her father and grandparents. At once a peek into a day in the life of a toddler, it is also a tender act of memorial, as Adichie writes under the pseudonym Nwa Grace-James – in honour of her deceased parents, James and Grace. The recurring pattern of Mama’s vivid green scarf, decorated with bright red and blue rings and beautifully reproduced on the endsheets, poignantly evokes a sense of the circle of life.Intensely atmospheric, full of biting cold, tender detail and warm light, this is a book to cuddle up with” – The Guardian