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Peter van Wermeskerken

The French bunny Jean-Pierre has tracked down Mike and Alex and brings them to the Normandy coast, where the Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe took place in August 1944. A dolphin family is waiting there to take our heroes to Wally. This whale managed to escape the whalers with a harpoon in its back. Of course, Mike and Alex, with the help of many dolphins and a selection of special seaweeds, manage to heal the whale. Wally is so grateful for this that he invites the land animals on a world cruise by whale. The luxury on board the whale can hardly be described. In part 4, which follows this story, it turns out that it will not be a cruise of lazing around, but of meeting some major needs of the sea animals.

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The Big Salt Water: Mike & Alex, Part 3

"If this book is on the school's book selection list, all children will choose this book," writes one reader. "It is exciting; they learn to solve problems; they develop an understanding of animals and our world. In short, it offers them, but also adults, so much. Therefore, it's not surprising that the number of 5-star reviews increases every week.

Mike & Alex is a series of children's books for children aged 6-12. Several schools in Holland have part of the book chosen for comprehensive reading. We've accounted for the age at which children start to read, using a clear and somewhat larger font and ample line spacing. The educational aspect of the three interconnected stories is largely in the description of the animals' life behavior but also in the explanations and maps of different places in the world. The 'entertainment' factor is a key component, with engaging topics like cleaning the seas and a captivating method of description. This approach has been well-received in my first book, 'Double Spy, an autobiography', published in 2014.
In this book, the French bunny Jean-Pierre finds our main characters. Mike is a giant rabbit, and Alex is a large wild boar. They have helped animals many times when they were suffering from human behavior. In this book, for example, they help whale Wally get rid of a harpoon in his back. As a thank you, Wally offers them a world cruise with him. It is luxuriously furnished for this purpose. Once on their journey, they are called upon to do something against the whalers at the South Pole. They notice that they have made the whales angry. Then the tuna come to Puck and Evert to complain about all the people's dirt in the world's oceans. Our friends devise a solution for this, where the garbage is deposited back on people's doorsteps.

World Cruise by Whale: Parts 3 & 4

Puck and Evert have just started their world trip by a whale as a thank-you for making their host Wally better when the next job presents itself. Whalers threaten Antarctic whales. They devised a plan to implement it with all the whales together. The big hunter ships are going to push them into the pack ice. On one of the boats, they are very rude to the whales. The crew notices what happens when you make the whales angry. In the second story, the tunas ask if Puck and Evert can devise a plan to clean up all the people's garbage floating in the sea. Well, people get their trash delivered back to their front door by the fish. The fish dump the massive load of dirt in fishing nets sewn together by the Octopus ladies in front of three crucial world ports. Will people learn to behave?

Humans get their Dirt Back

Mike & Alex - The book series

Mike & Alex - The book series

Mike & Alex books in order

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