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Author: Simon James
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780763623104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A child's enjoyment of a whale in the sea near his home ceases when the whale is suddenly never seen again. A final page emphasizes the necessity of preserving whales.
Author: Robert E. Wells
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0807592862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The blue whale is the biggest creature on Earth. But a hollow Mount Everest could hold billions of whales! And though Mount Everest is enormous, it is pretty small compared to the Earth. This book is an innovative exploration of size and proportion.
Author: Carol Carson
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780990716204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about Salt, the most famous humpback whale that lives and feeds in the waters off Cape Cod. Through the eyes of Salt, readers learn about the biology of humpback whales and the other baleen whales that come to feed in the waters of New England. Salt is a baleen whale that filters over 1 ton of large krill or small baitfish out of the water each day. This book describes how baleen, made from a protein called keratin, grows down from the gum line of the upper jaw and creates a hairy mat inside the whale's mouth. As a whale lunges mouth open, engulfing seawater and small baitfish, the whale will then close its mouth and begin to strain or push the water back out. Saltwater can pass through the hairy mat inside the mouth, but the fish become trapped inside. Next the whale swallows its food whole. Readers also learn about Salt's life and her 13 calves. Each have received a name in honor of their famous mom. By watching Salt and her offspring, scientists have learned that humpback moms have a single calf every few years. The calf stays with mom for a year, but it will return to the same feeding area when a juvenile and then as an adult. Also discussed are current research techniques being conducted on humpback whales. Much of the research is focused on a benign technique called photo-identification, where natural body markings and features are photographed and used to create catalogs of known individuals. Known individual humpbacks are then tracked over the course of a season or from one season to the next. Readers also learn about the many hazards facing our oceans and all marine wildlife that call the ocean home. Marine hazards include, overfishing, climate change, marine debris, and collisions with vessels. Positive actions that people can take to help protect the oceans, whales, and all marine animals includes, reducing, reusing, and recycling, as well as reading about marine wildlife and participating in conservation activities like beach cleanups.
Author: Troy Howell
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Published: 2018-05-22
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 1524715182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A moving, poetic story about a whale in captivity who longs for the ocean . . . because whales don't belong in fishbowls, do they? Wednesday is a whale who lives in a fishbowl smack dab in the middle of a city--it's the only home she's ever known. Cars whizz around her and people hurry past; even the sun and moon circle above. But if she leaps high enough out of her bowl, Wednesday can see it: a calm bit of blue off in the distance. When a girl in a paisley dress tells Wednesday "You belong in the sea," the whale starts to wonder, what is the sea? Readers will cheer--and get all choked up-- when, one day, Wednesday leaps higher than ever before and sets in motion a breathtaking chain of events that will carry her to her rightful home. Touching, and ultimately uplifting, here is a story about a lonely creature longing to be free--and longing to find someone just like her. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018! A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018!
Author: Sanna Anderson Baker
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780860121763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Summary: Tells in rhyme of God's control of the elements and His loving care of Earth's animals.
Author: Angela Chirila
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09-18
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781087912516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon James
Publisher:
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781417636273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The award-winning author/illustrator makes a big splash with this wistful, informative tale of a boy who befriends an endangered blue whale. Full color.
Author: David Weinstone
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 0374305358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A little boy who can't fall asleep gets help from his animal friends in this picture book from popular "kindie rocker" David Weinstone—with a musical version of the text available as a free download.
Author: K a Mulenga
Publisher: Nlsa
Published: 2021-05-18
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781991202017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Will is the nicest boy in town. Although he is much loved by all the town's grownups, the other boys don't appreciate his good qualities and not one of them wants to be his friend. At school he has no one to play with and feels lonely and sad. Luckily, Will has a special someone in his life who always makes him feel better. When the other boys are playing together, Will goes down to the harbour and spends time playing with Whale. Whale may not be a boy, but he is the best friend Will could ever ask for! He is kind, fun to be with and is always there for him. The other boys don't understand Will's friendship with Whale and bully him. They call him unkind names and refer to him as "Weird Will". They even make up nasty songs about him and sing them whenever they see him.The story takes a dramatic turn when, one day, Will goes to visit his best friend but finds he is not in his usual place. After looking for him for ages, Will receives some devastating news and is utterly heartbroken. His best friend has gone and he will never be able to play with him again. Will's parents explain that it was because of people's lack of respect for the ocean that Whale has fallen ill and won't be coming back. Will vows to honour the memory of his only friend by teaching people to be kind. He also thinks up an innovative way to educate the townsfolk about being more responsible about the way they treat their environment. Finally, Will's qualities are recognised and appreciated by the other boys. They feel compassion for Will's loss and see the error of their ways. Will, once known only as "the nicest boy in town" by the parents and as "Weird Will" by the boys, is now regarded as the wisest - not to mention the most popular - boy in town!This poignant story is written with great sensitivity and addresses many difficult issues that children may be facing. These include being the target of bullying from one's peers, the ache of loneliness and the devastation of the death of a loved one. The story also contains important and relevant lessons for children in terms of people's responsibility towards animals, our oceans and our planet in general. Although the story contains a few hard-hitting truths, young readers will enjoy the special friendship Will enjoyed with his best friend and take comfort in knowing that our true friends are sometimes found in the unlikeliest of places. The story's happy ending offers hope and a promise of better days ahead to any child who has had to deal with loss in their lives.
Author: Tom Mustill
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1538739135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak—asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 “When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size.” On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic—until a humpback whale breached, landing on top of them, releasing the energy equivalent of forty hand grenades. He was certain he was about to die, but they both survived, miraculously unscathed. In the interviews that followed the incident, Mustill was left with one question: What could this astonishing encounter teach us? Drawing from his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker, Mustill started investigating human–whale interactions around the world when he met two tech entrepreneurs who wanted to use artificial intelligence (AI)—originally designed to translate human languages—to discover patterns in the conversations of animals and decode them. As he embarked on a journey into animal eavesdropping technologies, where big data meets big beasts, Mustill discovered that there is a revolution taking place in biology, as the technologies developed to explore our own languages are turned to nature. From seventeenth-century Dutch inventors, to the whaling industry of the nineteenth century, to the cutting edge of Silicon Valley, How to Speak Whale examines how scientists and start-ups around the world are decoding animal communications. Whales, with their giant mammalian brains, virtuoso voices, and long, highly social lives, offer one of the most realistic opportunities for this to happen. But what would the consequences of such human animal interaction be? We’re about to find out.
