We in this house love the sea and any stories about it, so this picture book caught our eye immediately.

El niño se sentía tan solo, que encontro a la ballena, la cuidó y se hizo cargo, porque sentía que por fin estaba haciendo algo y que tenía compañía. The Storm Whale by Benji Davies is a beautiful story for your seaside/under the sea topic all about friendship and loneliness.

The Storm Whale is a gentle reminder that sometimes you need to make an effort to stay connected to each other. They counted cats on every page and almost died laughing when they found a cat in the boat at the end.

Also, the way it portrays a different family type with Noi's dad being a single parent, and showing how they have to do a lot of work to provide for the family. Determined to care for this stranded creature, Noi brought the whale home and put it in the bathtub. He knew that whales cannot be outside water for long, and he bought a trolley and hid the whale in his bathtub. After a rough storm last night, Noi wanted to check if anything is washed by the shore and to his surprise he found a whale washed by the shore.

With his dad working hard as a fisherman, Noi sometimes feels a bit lonely, so when, one day, he finds a little whale washed up on the beach after a storm, he takes it home to care for it. Hij verstopt hem in de badkuip zodat zijn vader er niet achter komt dat hij de walvis mee naar huis heeft genomen en zodat de walvis alsnog in het water ligt. Noi decides to go down to the beach to see if anything has been washed up on the shore after a particularly bad storm. I also loved the Frog And Toad books by Arnold Lobel, and when I was bit older The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann. As a child, Benji knew that when he grew up he either wanted to make films or draw pictures in books.