Author(s): Kylie Howarth

Picture Books

A jazzy little fish called Toot has trouble finding a friend to play with in the wide blue sea because he is a little noisy. Make that very noisy! His loud musical ways are not appreciated by those that he meets, until something unexpected happens - our little fish is swallowed by a large whale, and inside the whale's stomach he finds a ready-made band that he can join. A limited text picture book. Books with limited or no text offer opportunities for discussion with children - they also offer children a chance to 'read' the story by themselves. Limited text encourages the reader's imagination. Limited text also encourages key reading skills such as comprehension, sequencing, inferring and predicting.