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This book was written by Julia Donaldson and illustrations by Alex Scheffler is a wonderful book for children. This book is about a small snail who had always envisioned to sail on the seas. Well one day the giant well came to a rock and invited the snail to ride with him and that was a dream come true for the snail. The well one day was swimming to close to the shore and got beached. It was now left up to the small snail to figure out a way to help his friend the whale.


The flat cartoonish multimedia illustrations sets a perfect tone for the text. The rollicking language and bright colored pictures make it a perfect book to read aloud to young students. The illustrations are wonderful with very vibrant colors and detailed pictures.


My personal thoughts about the book is that it tells a wonderful story which teaches young children that you are never to small in this big world to make a difference. This story shows a wonderful friendship between a snail and a whale one who is large and the other is so small. I also think that this book will appeal to the younger audience because it has a lot of rhyming within the story.


I would ask the class the following questions such as: 1. How would you end the story if you had to write it and why? 2. Would you change the characters in the book to something else ? and why or why not? 3. Is that the way you thought that the story would end?


Classroom activities:
1. I would have the class to recreate the scene where the whale was beached using a shoebox, sand, rocks, and a cardboard, glue, markers and construction paper. The rocks would be uses for the water.
2.There are a lot of rhyming words in this story. Can you find the rhyming words in the story? Can you find other words in the story that rhyme?
3. Write your own story about two different creatures who go on an adventure with one another.


Puffin, Reprint edition (2006) The Snail and the Whale