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The Whale's Tale and the Otter's Side of the Story

The Whale's Tale and the Otter's Side of the Story

Messner, Kate
Biggs, Brian

Hardcover

AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0063372622
ISBN13: 9780063372627
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.40 Width: 8.20 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

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.

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