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1) Whale fall
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful...
Author
Series
Young wizards volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard S'reee in combating an evil power.
5) Amos & Boris
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1971]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
[32] p. col. illus. 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amos the mouse and Boris the whale have little in common except that they are both mammals and save each other's lives.
6) Moby Dick
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Call me Ishmael". So begins Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's epic account of the last voyage of the ill-fated whaling ship Pequod, and its captain's obsessive pursuit of the legendary white whale that maimed him years before. Melville's classic novel has given American literature some of its most iconic characters. Inspired by the real-life ordeal of the crew of the whaling ship Essex--who, in 1819, were set adrift in the heart of the sea for eighty-nine...
7) Amos y Boris
Author
Publisher
Mirasol
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.
10) Whales passing
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy standing with his father on the shore watches five Orca whales and imagines them talking underwater in their star-dance light while the bubbles bubble up.
12) An ocean world
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st HarperTrophy ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A whale sails new seas and, after several unsuccessful attempts, makes a friend.
Author
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23x29 cm
Language
English
Description
Bruno, who is known for his imaginative tales, is unable to convince his family that he is really trying to take his bath, but the whale in the tub refuses to leave.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peg, a big strapping seven-year-old lass who has caught everything else in the sea, joins the crew of the whaling ship Viper and sets out to catch herself a whale.
20) Rare stuff
Author
Publisher
Spuyten Duyvil
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brett Ashley Kaplan's novel, Rare Stuff, intertwines whale and human culture in a journey that highlights the need to protect whales and our shared planet. Her support of whale conservation with the proceeds of her novel will ensure the story of whales and our shared ecosystem does not end with her book"--
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