TITLE INFORMATION Megumi Iwasa studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo. After graduating, she worked there until 1986. She lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Jun Takabatake is one of Japan’s best-loved children’s illustrators. His illustrations have been exhibited throughout the world, and he has won many international awards, including the Graphics Prize (Bologna Children’s Book Fair), a Japan Picture Book Award and the Kodansha Award for Picture Books.
Dear Professor Whale by Megumi Iwasa Illustrated by Jun Takabatake
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Released: September 2018 A charming chapter-book follow-up to the international bestseller Yours Sincerely, Giraffe WHY I CHOSE THIS BOOK
“Yours Sincerely, Giraffe is one of my favourite Gecko Press books in 13 years of publishing, and this follow-up has all the warmth and quirky joy of the original” Julia Marshall, Publisher SALES POINTS
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An ideal first chapter book, with humour, warmth and joyful illustrations
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Themes of community and being a good sport are lightly handled
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A resounding success around the world, Yours Sincerely, Giraffe has sold 16,000 copies in just over a year and is now a top backlist title
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PB $19.99 978-1-927271-87-2
Professor Whale is the only whale left at Whale Point. He thinks often of the old days when his friends were all around and they competed at the Whale Point Olympics. One day, he gets a letter from Wally. The young whale has heard about the great big enormous whale who won gold for his spectacular spouting. That gets the Professor thinking. What if there could be a new Olympics, with the sea full of whales again? In this charming follow-up to the international bestseller, another correspondence flourishes across the horizons. The letters bring penguins, whales and seals together at the Whale Point Olympics, with friendship and humour winners on the day. REVIEWS FOR YOURS SINCERELY, GIRAFFE
Ages 6–8 204 x 144 mm 104 pages B/w illustrations ebook available Paperback w/flaps $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-776572-07-6 Origin: Japan
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Chosen for the New York Public Library’s top 10 books of 2017, starred reivews in Kirkus, Booklist and School Library Journal “This is a rare book: joyful, ingenuous, playfully earnest” Kirkus (US) “the kind of book to set a pre-teen youngster on a lifelong romance with books and literature” Magpies (AUS)