Flip & Fin: Super Sharks to the Rescue!

by Timothy Gill, Neil Numberman (Illustrator)

Overview

Flip and Fin, the irrepressible sand shark twins, want to save the day—just like their favorite TV superheroes. So off to the beach they go, for a bright, funny adventure that will tickle fans of Finding Nemo and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Faster than a sailfish! Tougher than a clamshell! Inspired by their favorite TV characters, Flip and Fin are determined to save someone’s day. But whose? They swim right to the shoreline with their two best friends, ready to find someone in peril. And when they get there . . . Aaaaaah! Shaaaaark! What could all the people on the beach be afraid of? It’s a job for the super sharks! This fish-in-the-water adventure is full of goofy humor, and young readers will delight in figuring out what’s so scary long before Flip and Fin do. The perfect pick for summertime—and Shark Week—story times. Includes a glossary of facts about sand sharks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062243010
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Timothy Gill lives every week like it’s Shark Week. He resides in New York City.

Neil Numberman lives in the Brooklyn Sea with his Catfish, his Dogfish, and his Wifefish.

Editorial Reviews

Cartoon-style watercolor illustrations and witty text will engage readers and have them rooting for the heroes…The good-natured, goofy humor mixed with the bright watercolors will have young ones giggling. Perfect for seasonal storytimes and superhero fans.” — School Library Journal

“The manic merriment is enjoyable from the get-go, and audiences will get a huge kick out of the heroes’ situational misunderstanding. The watercolor and pencil art is zippy and playful...Simple sentence structures and lots of repetition make this equally suitable as a read alone.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

From the Publisher

The manic merriment is enjoyable from the get-go, and audiences will get a huge kick out of the heroes’ situational misunderstanding. The watercolor and pencil art is zippy and playful...Simple sentence structures and lots of repetition make this equally suitable as a read alone.

Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

The manic merriment is enjoyable from the get-go, and audiences will get a huge kick out of the heroes’ situational misunderstanding. The watercolor and pencil art is zippy and playful...Simple sentence structures and lots of repetition make this equally suitable as a read alone.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

06/01/2016
PreS-Gr 1—Flip and Fin are twin sand sharks. After watching their favorite cartoon, in which Sammy Saw Shark and Harry Hammerhead catch bad guys and save the day, Flip and Fin decide to become superheroes and find someone to help. As they zip and flip through the waters with their friends, an octopus and an anglerfish, they suddenly discover a beach ball that belongs to humans. This is their opportunity to become heroes by returning the ball. However, as they approach the resort, the onlookers panic and dash for the beach. Flip and Fin think the humans are afraid of the ball and pop it, sending it far out to sea. As the friends leave, the humans cheer. Flip and Fin are convinced that they have saved the day. "Faster than a sailfish! Tougher than a clamshell! Super Sharks to the rescue!" Cartoon-style watercolor illustrations and witty text will engage readers and have them rooting for the heroes. Gill has also appended a handy "Did You Know…" page about sand sharks. VERDICT The good-natured, goofy humor mixed with the bright watercolors will have young ones giggling. Perfect for seasonal storytimes and superhero fans.—Paula Huddy, The Blake School-Highcroft Campus, Wayzata, MN

School Library Journal

2016-03-30
Sand shark twins Flip and Fin return as supersharks.Watching their favorite TV cartoon heroes, Sammy Saw Shark and Harry Hammerhead, saucer-eyed shark siblings Flip and Fin decide they want to be superheroes too and set out to find someone to help. As they zip along through the sea, they find their friends Swimmy the jellyfish and Molly the anglerfish (unlikely eyelashes reinforce her femininity). They all decide to be super together. Fin zips through the waves at the surface. Flip flips out of the water and lands on something strange and bouncy. They don't know what it is, but they know it belongs to the human people and decide they will be heroes if they return it to the beach. However, when they arrive at the beach, all the humans run screaming. They are afraid of the sharks, of course, but Flip and Fin think they are afraid of the ball, so they bite it and end up heroes (in their minds at least). Gill's second Flip & Fin tale (mostly free of the bad jokes that peppered the first) is not as clever as it intends to be. The fishy foursome doesn't know what they've found at first but then spontaneously start calling it a "ball." Numberman's cartoon watercolor illustrations out-goof the tale they help tell.A passable tale for the shark-obsessed, but there are funnier fish in the sea. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews