SuitabookMullets
Nick Sharratt
- Reading
- Read the rhyming lines aloud, linger over each double-page illustration and invite predictions about who might appear next. Afterward, revisit the final spread and discuss the visual joke.
- Themes
- Celebrating difference through appearance: People, babies and numerous animals are depicted with the same distinctive hairstyle, making visual variety the central comic device. The book presents this favourably.
- Wordplay and visual discovery: Minimal, sometimes rhyming text works alongside bold illustrations, with a fish comparison and a concealed whale hairstyle near the ending. The book clearly foregrounds playful sound and looking closely; the fish and whale function as visual jokes rather than factual explanation.
- Worth knowing
- Some readers may enjoy spotting the joke that a real mullet fish does not have the hairstyle. The ending invites close looking, so pausing before the last page can preserve the reveal.