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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2019
In this dramatic wordless tale, a commercial fisherman and what appears to be his son collect fish in the large net thrown from their boat. They sail on-that is, until the boy notices their fishing lines have entangled a whale. At the boy's urging-the gestures between the boy and man give the story a nail-biting momentum-the father dives into the ocean to free the creature. Lanan's watercolor and gouache paintings are expansive and cinematic as she takes readers under the water; gives us aerial view...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2019
In this dramatic wordless tale, a commercial fisherman and what appears to be his son collect fish in the large net thrown from their boat. They sail on-that is, until the boy notices their fishing lines have entangled a whale. At the boy's urging-the gestures between the boy and man give the story a nail-biting momentum-the father dives into the ocean to free the creature. Lanan's watercolor and gouache paintings are expansive and cinematic as she takes readers under the water; gives us aerial view...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
