A Whale of a Tale!

by WORTH, BONNIERUIZ, ARISTIDES

• ISBN13: 9780375822797
• ISBN10: 0375822798
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-23
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Summary

Onboard a vessel that would make Jacques Cousteau green with envy, the Cat and Co. take to the high seas in search of whales, dolphins, and porpoisesthose aquatic mammals known as cetaceans. While learning how cetaceans stay warm without hair, have teeth or baleen, swim in troops, spyhop, spin, breach, and see via ecolocation, kids are introduced to almost 20 different speciesincluding sperm, right, humpback, and blue whales; Gulf, spectacled, and finless porpoise; and boto, common, hourglass, and bottlenose dolphins. A shipshape selection for summer reading! "The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library shows young readers that books can be entertaining and educational at the same time. This is a wonderful series!" Barbara Kiefer, Ph.D., Charlotte S. Huck Professor of Children's Literature, Ohio State University

Author Biography

Bonnie Worth is the author of countless books for young readers, among them 18 of the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library books, including Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur?, If I Ran the Rain Forest, Oh Say Can You Seed? (winner of the 2003 Ohio Farm Bureau Award), Hark! A Shark!, and If I Ran the Horse Show.

Aristides Ruiz is the illustrator of all the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library books.