Another read-aloud Julia Donaldson story with enchanting illustrations by Axel Scheffler. Educational stories don’t get better than this, with adventure and an unlikely friendship between these two very different animals.
As we follow this curious snail it is a great opportunity to help children learn about ocean animals and different parts of the world. It also gives great opportunities to discuss how humans can help or hinder marine life.
If you need storytime book suggestions or fiction books for english teachers this is a great resource, as the underwater children's story uses rhyming to explain its message. Rhyming stories are a great device to support language acquisition as they help develop children's phonemic awareness.
This book is for 3 year olds upwards, but it can definitely go in the pile of children’s books for adults to enjoy too.
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Hello children and welcome to another story time. Today we are going on another underwater adventure
so come along and let's follow this little snail and see if we can spot all the different places
that her friend the whale takes her to. The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson.
This is a tale of a tiny snail and a great big grey blue humpback whale. This is a rock
as black as soot and this is a snail with an itchy foot. The sea snail slithered all over the rock
and gazed at the sea and the ships in the dock and as she gazed she sniffed and sighed.
The sea is deep and the world is wide how I long to sail said the tiny snail.
These are the other snails in the flock who all stuck tight to the smooth black rock
and said to the snail with the itchy foot be quiet don't wiggle sit still stay put.
But the tiny sea snail sighed and sniffed then cried I've got it I'll hitch a lift.
This is the trail of the tiny snail a silvery trail that looped and curled and said
lift wanted around the world. This is the whale who came one night when the tide was high
and the stars were bright a humpback whale immensely long who sang to the snail a wonderful
song of shimmering ice and coral caves and shooting stars and enormous waves.
And this is the tale of the humpback whale he held it out of the starlit sea and said to the snail
come sail with me. This is the sea so wild and free that carried the whale and the snail on his
to towering icebergs and far off lands with fiery mountains and golden sands.
These are the waves that arched and crashed that foamed and frolicked and sprayed and splashed
the tiny snail on the tail of the whale. These are the caves beneath the waves where stripy fish
with feathery fins and sharks with hideous toothy grins swam around the whale and the snail on his
tail. This is the sky so vast and high sometimes sunny and blue and warm sometimes filled with a
zigzag lightning flashing and frightening the tiny snail on the tail of the whale.
And she gazed at the sky the sea the land the waves and the caves and the golden sand
she gazed and gazed amazed by it all and she said to the whale I feel so small.
But then came the day the whale lost his way. These are the speedboats running a race zigging
and zooming all over the place upsetting the whale with their ears hitting roar making him swim
too close to the shore. This is the tide slipping away and this is the whale lying beached in a bay
quick off the sand back to the sea cried the snail. I can't move on land I'm too big moaned
the whale the snail felt helpless and terribly small. Then I've got it she cried and started
to crawl. I must not fail said the tiny snail. This is the bell on the school in the bay
ringing the children in from their play. This is the teacher holding her chalk telling the class
sit straight don't talk. This is the board as black as soot and this is the snail with the itchy foot.
A snail a snail the teacher turns pale look say the children it's leaving a trail.
This is the trail of the tiny snail a silvery trail saying save the whale.
These are the children running from school fetching the fireman digging a pool squirting
and spraying to keep the whale cool. This is the tide coming into the bay and these are the
villagers shouting hooray as the whale and the snail travel safely away back to the dock and the
flock on the rock who said how time's flown and haven't you grown and the whale and the snail
told their wonderful tale of shimmering ice and coral caves and shooting stars and enormous waves
and of how the snail so small and frail with her looping curling silvery trail
saved the life of the humpback whale. Then the humpback whale held out his tail and on crawled
snail after snail after snail and they sang to the sea as they all set sail on the tail of the gray
blue humpback whale. The end. Hi children I hope you liked that story what a clever brave snail
and did you see all the amazing places the whale took her to visit let me know which was your
favorite okay I'll see you next time for another story time take care bye
