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The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children's Book of the Week What if you could communicate with a whale? Rio has been sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, while his mum is in hospital back home. He feels alone, and disconnected, struggling with his darkest fears for his mum. The only thing that makes him smile is joining his...
Author
Series
Whalesong trilogy volume 2
Publication Date
1994, c1993
Physical Desc
228 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
A young beluga whale feeds, frolics with playmates, and listens to the songs of the adult whales.
Author
Publication Date
2020.
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After losing her mom. Willa is grieving and having a hard time living with her dad and his new family on an island off the coast of Washington State. Her dad tries to cheer her up by taking her whale watching, something Willa's mom used to do. While all the passengers are on one side of the boat, Will encounters a humpback whale on the opposite side. Willa feels so lonely that she starts to talk to the whale--and the whale talks back! The whale, named...
Author
Publication Date
1966
Physical Desc
216 p. illus. 22 cm.
Description
The fate of an 11-year-old girl depends on the whimsy of a pink whale. Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. In Tribulation's farmhouse, life is unbearable. When mysterious men lurk...
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Publication Date
2023.
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"After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved. The trip will do them good, Mom says, but the girl isn't sure. How can that be true when grandpa isn't there? And how will they find a whale in all that water, anyway? There is so much to see as they paddle through white-tipped waves and calm coves: glowing moon jellies, fluttering anemones and...
Author
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Swimming, singing and blowing bubbles--baby whale calves and young human children share so many of the same activities! This lyrical picture book compares the relationship of a young child and mother with that of a whale calf and its mother, showing how the lives of the whales can be so touchingly like our own. Patterned in a call-and-response format, where the mother observes and the child responds, the text begs to be read aloud. Safe at night...
Author
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
When Sally and her brother spot a beached whale on their way home from school in Maine, the town races to save the whale. Meanwhile, Sally sits close to the whale's eye and assures the stranded creature of its strength and beauty.
9) Heartbeat
Author
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Separated from her mother, a young whale swims the oceans for decades until she finds a young girl who shares her vision of one planet for which all are responsible.
11) The blue whale
Author
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Description
"The is a gorgeously illustrated nonfiction picture book about the blue whale. It is full of relatable facts from every day life that help to make the size and habits of the blue whale easily comprehensible and engaging."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 26 cm.
Description
Off the Pacific coast of Mexico, a baby sperm whale is born, feeds, speaks to her mother in clicks, and spends her days diving, spy-hopping, lob-tailing, and rolling as she grows and learns the ways of the sea.
Author
Series
Oona volume 3
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"A mermaid and her otter friend go on a journey to help a lost beluga whale return to the Arctic."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
A wordless picture book in which a fisherman finds a whale caught in fishing nets and sets it free. Includes author's note about the environmental impact of contemporary commercial fishing practices.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original volume 45
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
97 p. col. ill. 20 cm.
Description
"I invited my friend Petunia Pretty Paws to visit the Bay of Whales with me. But our trip got off on the wrong paw, and my relaxing vacation turned into a real nightmare. That is, until Petunia and I came across a great white whale that needed our help" (publisher).
Author
Publication Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Description
In a quiet harbor, a young child hears the call of a right whale, the rarest kind of whale. He is the only person in his town to hear the whale's moving song, and he waits by the bay to hear more of her story and shares in her joy and sorrow. At first her story makes the young boy sad, but he is soon filled with hope as she introduces her new calf to the world. Full of dreamy watercolors,Welcome Home, Whales shares the story of a boy who befriends...
Author
Series
Lighthouse family volume 2
Publication Date
c2003
Physical Desc
61 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A family of animals that lives in a lighthouse helps a lost baby beluga whale find his mother.
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