Monty and the Ocean Rescue Review – Blog Tour

Blurb:

Monty, Cookie and the spangles are back at the beach for the fifth book in this series of children’s books. 

When Cookie sees a splash in the water her newfoundland instinct to rescue takes over and she immediately heads out to help. When she returns the dogs get a huge surprise as they hear a desperate plea.

What follows is an adventure that could turn out to be their biggest and most difficult so far. 

This is a gentle introduction for children about the issues of plastic pollution in our oceans and even features Sir David Attenborough.

Where to buy the book

Amazon UK, Montydogge Bookstore (Buy a Pawtographed copy here!)

[This book can also be found on most online bookstores]

My Review

I was really happy to get a chance to be a part of this blog tour. I know a lot of my readers may be a bit old for this book but if you work in education or have a child in your life regardless of being a parent or not then I would definitely recommend this book.

My daughter read it to me, then I read it to her, and we both loved it! She asked me to make certain to put in my blog that she really liked Monty, Cookie, and the Mermaid -oh and the dolphin-.

When asked what message she took away from this, my daughter responded with ‘that people should not be throwing litter in the ocean and that we should clean up our oceans.’ We’re recycling people here and we try to minimize the amount of plastic we go through, so this book was a very good way to explain why we do that.

The book is great for those that are just past the early reader stages and I would say is appropriate for quite a wide rage of ages. [I’d say it’s never too early and that even up to 9 would be a great age, and who am I to judge if a ten year old wants to read this]

One of the reasons it’s such a great read is that M.T. Sanders does a lovely job making the story truly flow and it will keep younger ages engaged because of it. It was a treat that David Attenborough was featured in the book, who better to slip into a children’s story about caring for our environment?

Now aside from the great message its rhyming it was delivered in a brilliant manner as Cookie, Monty, and their ‘spangled’ gang helped clear up the oceans with the help of their new found friends! The pictures are beautiful and the illustrator Zoe Sanders outdoes herself.

We want to say thank you to our lovely Author, Illustrator, for having a chance to read this book with my daughter and we love our pawtographed copy, and another thank you to Whisperingstories for allowing me to join this book tour.

Monty related links

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The Rest of the Tour