Making a Splash Book Cover

What's the Book About?

Discover how reporters follow a real-life whale in the River Thames and turn what happens into exciting news stories. You’ll see how they gather facts, talk to experts, and choose pictures and words to share the story with everyone. As you read, you’ll start to spot how news is made all around you, and maybe feel inspired to become a young reporter yourself.

Book Details

  • Band:
  • Scheme: Project X
  • Type: Non-Fiction
  • Author: Chloe Rhodes

Reviews from Our Readers

Ciaran (Age 6)

Rating: 5 / 5

This book is about
This book is about a Northern bottle-nosed whale who swam from the Atlantic Ocean to the River Thames in London. He became dehydrated because there were no squids and plankton to feed on. The whale got weaker and eventually died.

The main characters are
The Northern bottle-nosed whale.

My favourite part of the book is
When the reporters are filming the whale.

I would also like to say
At my school I recently made a poster that said, ¨Put your litter in the bin, so that whales and dolphins won´t die¨.

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