Mike & Alex Components 3 and 4: World Cruise by Whale by Peter van Wermeskerken
“By teaming up with the whales, dolphins, octopi and even some tuna, Mike and Alex can have a profound optimistic influence on the atmosphere round them”
Upon first look, you may not instantly suspect Mike and Alex to be greatest four-legged mates. What precisely would a rabbit have in widespread with a boar?
Effectively, because it seems, quite a bit! As the most important in his rabbit household, Mike might relate to Alex, who was the smallest of all his boar siblings. This similarity introduced them collectively, and thus a strong friendship was born — one which’s had an influence on ecosystems internationally. As a result of when Mike and Alex work collectively, they’ll obtain some unbelievable issues — like saving fellow animals from humanity’s impact on the atmosphere.
Within the first e-book within the Mike & Alex collection, The Defenders of the Animal Forest, these two mates labored alongside a bunch of different animals to guard the forest from close by people. Now, in Mike & Alex Components 3 and 4: World Cruise by Whale, written by Peter van Wermeskerken, these two conservationists come across their greatest problem but — one which’s about to take them throughout the globe for the journey of a lifetime.
All Aboard
The story begins on the dunes of Normandy with Mike and Alex, and Jean-Pierre — their rabbit information to the area. Mike and Alex are having fun with the seaside view, after they’re flagged down by a pod of dolphins whose expensive good friend wants help. Wally the whale is beached on a close-by sandbank, with a whaler’s harpoon caught in his again! Fortunate for Wally, Mike and Alex at the moment are well-known throughout the animal kingdom for his or her work in defending the forest from these nasty “two-leggers,” as they discuss with people.
With assist from the dolphin pod, Mike and Alex deal with Wally, eradicating the harpoon and guaranteeing the wound heals sufficient for him to return to the ocean. Wally’s past grateful, and he gives them a reward for his or her onerous work — to take a world cruise from the snug furnishings of his mouth! Looking forward to an opportunity to sightsee, Mike and Alex hop in and the three of them set off. However they quickly find yourself on a much more daring journey than they might ever have foreseen — serving to to defeat whalers within the South Pole and pull human air pollution out of the oceans!
Training Meets Leisure
Formatted with massive textual content and huge spacing, this youngsters’s chapter e-book is for ages 6-12, and particularly geared toward youngsters first studying to learn. Wermeskerken has good motive to maintain this target market in thoughts, since this collection has been used for complete studying in a number of faculties within the Netherlands. It’s for causes like this that he’s chosen to incorporate distinctive traits throughout the textual content, so as to add a further lesson to the textual content.
For instance, in World Cruise by Whale, the chairman of the whales has a speech obstacle that forestalls him from saying the letter “o”. The textual content displays this through the use of an emblem as a substitute, educating youngsters to learn what’s there on the web page and infer what the complete phrase which means is, based mostly on the lacking letters. It’s moments like this that present Wermeskerken’s drive to teach younger readers.
However whereas there could also be a studying comprehension lesson in World Cruise by Whale, that doesn’t make it any much less enjoyable. By teaming up with the whales, dolphins, octopi and even some tuna, Mike and Alex can have a profound optimistic influence on the atmosphere round them. Their cooperation and management abilities mannequin wonderful habits to younger readers — that once we work as a workforce, we may also help the earth and our group in massive methods.
About Peter van Wermeskerken:
Peter van Wermeskerken (alias Pete Van Kerk), born on December 31, 1939, overcame epilepsy to grow to be a celebrated journalist and writer. After graduating from the Greater Agricultural College in Utrecht in 1960, he adopted his father into journalism, finally becoming a member of AD, the place he gained worldwide recognition as a number one oil reporter.Peter’s writing profession started with The Years 90 (1988), a bestseller that includes predictions by prime Dutch CEOs. His second e-book, Double Agent (2013), detailed his time as a Dutch secret service operative and earned vital reward. After shedding his spouse in 2014, Peter remarried and returned to writing, producing an erotic novel, a satire on aged care, and new installments of his environmentally centered youngsters’s collection Mike & Alex. The most recent e-book, releasing in summer time 2024, follows the characters on a whale rescue and ocean cleanup, incomes reward for its originality and kid-friendly design.
Publish Date: 7/21/2024
Style: Youngsters’s Books
Writer: Peter van Wermeskerken
Web page Depend: 255 pages
ISBN: 9798333751997