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Product Identifiers

PublisherFirefly Books, The Limited

ISBN-100944475353

ISBN-139780944475355

eBay Product ID (ePID)290310

Product Key Features

Edition25

Book TitleGarden of Whales

Number of Pages32 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicAnimals / Marine Life, Nature & The Natural World / General (See Also Headings under Animals), Bedtime & Dreams, General

FeaturesReprint

IllustratorYes, O'Connell, Jennifer Barrett

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorMaggie Steincrohn Davis

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width11 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN92-034411

TitleLeadingA

ReviewsA rhythmic text and lush illustrations that feature cavorting, majestically powerful whales. The poetic, somewhat surreal quality of the story is appealing., 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., Rhythmic text and lush illustrations that feature cavorting, majestically powerful whales. The poetic ... quality of the story is appealing., 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. A rhythmic text and lush illustrations that feature cavorting, majestically powerful whales. The poetic, somewhat surreal quality of the story is appealing., Luscious prose that rolls trippingly off the tongue ... This is a bedtime read-aloud that will set heads nodding.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromPreschool

Dewey Decimal813.54

Grade ToSecond Grade

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisBack in print, first published 1993: Full color illustrations throughout, this is a story of a boy's fantasy of saving the whales - a strong conservation theme carried with the empowering message that a child's dream are the roots of action., "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. Last night in my tub, in my tub while I scrubbed, I dreamed that I lived in the sea with the Whales. Magnificent Whales. Mysterious Whales. Mystical, Musical, Mountainous Whales. 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.