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Misunderstood Shark

Eh. The illustrations are fun, but I thought the story was a bit flat. As an assortment of sea creatures are filming an Underwater World live broadcast, Shark shows up, and keeps starting to do things completely in character for a shark to do: eat a smaller fish, eat a baby seal, follow the smell of blood to a group of human swimmers. Each time the host of the TV show calls for Shark to stop, and not do anything heinous while the people are watching, Shark declares he’s been misunderstood: he was just showing the little fish his new tooth, returning the baby seal to its family, taking band-aids to the wounded swimmer. And then he eats the host of the TV show. A few “fun facts” about sharks are scattered throughout the story.