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5) Amos & Boris
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Amos the mouse and Boris the whale have little in common except that they are both mammals and save each other's lives.
6) Whales
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Long known as 'giants of the deep,' Earth's whales are much more than just big swimming mammals. Learn about various species' physical characteristics, eating habits, and even social structures in this fact-packed book. The World of Mammals reveals the fascinating physical and behavioral characteristics of a diverse sampling of animals and offers a detailed account of each animal's habitat and natural history. This series also teaches children the...
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Did you know that the biggest animal on Earth, the blue whale, only eats some of the smallest creatures in the ocean? That humpback whales sing underwater songs with lots of verses? Or that orcas can live with their families for their whole lives and bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years? The World of Whales explores the special characteristics and reveals mind-blowing facts about these fantastic animals. Join our sub-aquatic expedition...
10) Moby Dick
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Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship Pequod's other "meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways", is beguiled into joining Captain Ahab in his vengeful pursuit of the white whale that "dismasted" him. But along the way, Ishmael takes the reader along many a detour into variegated ways of knowing. In a...
12) Sea creatures
13) Whaley Whale
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The reader is invited to find Whaley Whale's hiding place.
Invites young readers to find Whaley Whale's hiding place, with simple text and illustrations.
14) Whales on stilts
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Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.
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"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...
20) Beachy and me
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It's summertime, but Pixie Picklespeare is lonely on the tiny island she lives on with her family . . . until one day when she makes friends with a whale!
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