A Garden of Whales Reprint Edition Contributor(s): Davis, Maggie Steincrohn (Author), O'Connell, Jennifer Barrett (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0944475353 ISBN-13: 9780944475355 Publisher: Firefly Books OUR PRICE: $7.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Follow a young boy's imagination as he dreams about the magnificent whales of the sea. Young readers will be drawn into his quest to help the endangered whales and will delight in his fantastical plan to fill the sea with whales again. Full color. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Science & Nature - General - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Marine Life |
Dewey: E |
LCCN: 92034411 |
Physical Information: 0.12" H x 10.52" W x 8.56" (0.31 lbs) 32 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "A rhythmic text and lush illustrations that feature cavorting, majestically powerful whales. The poetic, somewhat surreal quality of the story is appealing." -- Horn Book Guide "This tale of deliverance unfurls in luscious prose that rolls trippingly off the tongue... With her effulgent oil pastel illustrations O'Connell fully enters Davis's dream and strikingly echoes the fluent reverie. This is a bedtime read-aloud that will set heads nodding." -- Publishers Weekly First published in 1993, A Garden of Whales is one of our most popular children's books. It is the story of a boy's fantasy of saving the whales -- a strong conservation theme carried with the empowering message that children's dreams are the roots of action.
The narrator of this tale is a boy who knows that whales are magnificent but endangered creatures. He wants to do anything he can to save them, and as he scrubs in his bathtub, he dreams up a plan to save the whales. Children from all over the world also get in their bathtubs to save the whales, planting a garden of whales. He knows this is a fantasy, but the dreams of children are the roots of action, and action changes the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Maggie: - by Maggie Steincrohn Davis and illustrated by Jennifer Barrett O'Connell |