Noi manages to keep his secret all through supper but it is difficult to hide a whale and Noi’s new friend is soon discovered.

This series has two stories and they are so heartwarming and talks about an important trait to young children. Read and Create is a personal blog, featuring children's literature and the play, crafts, outings and food inspired by stories.

A beautiful 10th anniversary paperback edition of this award-winning, beloved modern classic, containing a note from the author. He knows it isn’t good for the whale to be out of the water for long so he manages to get the whale onto a trolley and he wheels him home, then hides him in the bath!

People often relate it to lots of places — Scandinavia, Scotland, Nantucket… I think it has a sense of being somewhere we’ve all been or would love to visit. The illustrations, that convey a distance between Noi and his dad, are also incredibly detailed - can you find the six cats? Noi rescued the storm whale at the end of summer and he never stopped thinking of the storm whale from then. Fiction story or non-fiction book, the curious mind will always find questions and we should be prepared to answer them at any time.

Talk together about the decisions in the story – Noi’s decision to keep the whale and his father’s decision to take it back to sea.