Thrown from his canoe during an ocean storm, a young Native American boy is washed ashore under a strange sky near a village inhabited by very large people who make him very welcome.
Readers learn about whales, giant mammals that live in the ocean. In order to protect themselves from predators, they release a cloud of waste that they hide in to confuse their pursuers.
A big blue whale comes to live near their reef creating a misunderstanding between him and Rainbow Fish and his friends that leaves everyone very unhappy and hungry.
"When Ishmael joined the crew of a whaling ship called the 'Pequod,' he was eager for a life of adventure on the high seas. But little did he know, he was about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With Captain Ahab at the helm, Ishmael and his crewmates quickly learned that they weren't simply hunting whales; they were on a quest for the biggest catch there ever was--the great white whale of legend, Moby Dick"--Jacket flap.
Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.
how it happened that Chantal Duprey befriended a whale during the Second World War and helped liberate France
Presley, Daniel
2018
During the German occupation of Paris, Chantal, twelve, spies a whale while fishing with her father in the Seine and is determined to return it to the ocean before the Nazis or starving Parisians can destroy it.
When she makes friends with some seagulls, Pickles, a young whale, joins them in taunting her old friend, a seal named Stitches, but when the gulls turn on Pickles, she learns how much bullying hurts.
Explains the journey humpback whales take between their feeding areas and their calving areas, and describes their physical characteristics and behaviors.
