Flip & Fin: Super Sharks to the Rescue! by Timothy Gill review by Klaudia Janek

Flip and Fin are sand shark twins. One wears red shorts and one wears green shorts. Their tv superheroes are Sammy Saw Shark and Harry Hammerhead who save the day. They are “faster than a sailfish! Tougher than a clamshell!” Flip and Fin want to save the day as well, so they go off on looking for adventure. There is lots of zipping and flipping. They find a human ball and decide to go return it. However, the human swimmers are really scared of sharks and they all run out of the water. The sharks think the humans are afraid of the ball. Flip and Fin congratulate themselves on a job well done in saving the humans. 

Straight Talk for Librarians: This book is a fun and silly tale about a misunderstanding. Little readers will laugh out when they realize that humans are really afraid of the sharks and not the ball. The illustrations are bright and colorful, setting a friendly tone. Flip and Fin imagine themselves to be superheroes as little readers are sure to do. The emotions illustrated in shark and human faces are very expressive. You can easily tell when someone is scared and when they are having fun. This story is really very “fliptastic” and “fliptacular”. Baby Shark fans will be most excited about a shark book. The last page of the book has lots of facts about sand sharks. I think young readers will be really interested in those. This book would be great for an independent reading choice, a classroom read aloud, an ocean or shark book display. Shark stories seem to be pretty timeless, so you can’t go wrong with this purchase for your school library. 

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