Hello, my name is Rachael. This book is a wonderful tale of worldwide travel to far off lands. Our star of the show is a sea snail, and her travelling companion is a great big, grey-blue humpback whale.
(chilly sounding) Brrr! In this double page picture we're in Antarctica. How do we know this? Well, the water is full of large and small floating icebergs and lots of jolly penguins. (SFX wind end)
(SFX penguin calls) These black and white creatures are joyfully sliding about the ice on their tummies or jumping into the cold ocean.
Two orange parrots sit in the palm trees while two orange crabs are claw to claw in combat on the sandy beach.
A golden eagle soars in the sky with wings outstretched. (SFX Golden eagle sound sauing high above) Another eagle is standing proudly on a rock.
In the page on the left five boats are zigging and zooming about in the bright blue sea. (SFX speedboats zooming about in bay) The little speed boats have names, Rocket, Buzz, Hornet, Zipper and Thunderbolt. Rocket is a red one seater boat driven by a lady in a red swimsuit. It's zooming so fast that it's lifted up in the air above the waves. Her dog is enjoying the ride with ears flapping in the wind.
In the page on the right our blue whale is not submerged in the ocean. No. He's in the shallow lapping waves of a sandy beach. Almost all of his body is out of the water.