The Shark that couldn’t Bite by Cheryl Rao won a prize in the category Read-Aloud Books/Picture Books in the Competition for Children’s Books organized by CBT. Rao is a prolific writer of children’s books and her latest book before the one under review Gymming on the Beach was reviewed in the November 2022 issue of The Book Review.
A visit to the dentist is terrifying to the old and the young; how then could a shark with crooked teeth not be scared of the Dentist Squid? But all’s right with the world for the hungry/angry shark once his teeth are straightened out and he can eat to his heart’s content. Imaginatively created, the narrative is so alive with the attractive illustrations that the young reader will swim and float in the sea in his/her imagination with the shark. Go out and order a copy to read out the tale that begins by saying: But there was once a shark.
November 2023, volume 47, No 11