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Written by children's authors and compiled by leading experts in the field of literacy, DK READERS capture children's interest and help them learn.
DK Readers is a multi-level learning-to-read program combining DK's highly visual style with appealing stories at four graduated levels. Stunning photographs and engaging, age-appropriate stories are guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge. DK Readers allow progression from stories for beginning readers with simple sentences and word repetition through to stories with rich vocabulary and more challenging sentence structure for proficient readers.
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Go look at in a bookstore first.......2007-04-17
So I ordered this book of of the strength of some other DK books that I have purchased for my son. All of the other books I looked at in a bookstore first - this time I did not. So imagine my surprise to find a picture of a dead dolphin floating upside down in a drift net.
For me that is not an appropriate image for a child to see. I can understand if they want to bring up the topic, and the other picture of a whale with a drift net where the words say that he breaks free is fine. But a picture of a dead dolphin - the book went staight back to Amazon.
I love this book so, so much!.......2005-12-13
I love this book so, so much because it has a map. I learned that he swims from the warm water to the cold water. There's not much food in the warm water but there's lots of food in the cold water. I learned that a whale's tail goes up and down but a fish's tail goes side to side.
You should read this book because it's awesome and has a map.
Travis, age 5
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- The world of a baby whale
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Baby Whale's Journey
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Into the Sea
ASIN: 0811857611 |
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Off the Pacific coast of Mexico, a whale is born. Swimming beside Mama Whale, and surrounded by a protective pod, Baby Whale begins to grow and learn. She dives in the deep dark through swirling galaxies of luminous fish. She encounters dangerous orcas and a giant squid. Soon Baby can leap and blow, and comes to know all the ways of the whales and the sea.
Continuing the nature series that includes The Eyes of Gray Wolf, Condor's Egg and Honeypaw and Lightfoot, Jonathan London's simple, poetic prose captures the tenderness and drama in the life of the endangered sperm whale. Jon Van Zyle's dynamic illustrations reveal the grace and magnificence of these mighty mammals. An informative afterword and a reader's guide are included.
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The world of a baby whale.......2001-05-04
"Baby Whale's Journey" is a truly magical and beautiful book for young readers. Jonathan London's compassionate and easy-to-read text blends perfectly with the majestic illustrations by Jon Van Zyle. Together, they tell the story of a baby sperm whale's life with her marine community.
The book is full of memorable images: the adult whales protecting the baby from orcas, the mother whale battling a giant squid, and mother and baby simply frolicking in their ocean habitat. Van Zyle's illustrations (most of which stretch across two-page spreads) are superb; Van Zyle is especially adept at capturing the marvelous play of light in the water. "Baby Whale's Journey" is educational, artistically impressive, and emotionally satisfying.
Wondeful Story about A Mother and Baby Whale.......2000-11-21
This is a great book for children to help them learn about Sperm Whales and provides children with an insight into life below the ocean waves. I would recomend this book to teachers who are looking for a book about Ocean Animals to share with their class. This would also be a good book for a mother to read to her daughter since it talks about the mother/daughter relationship of the whales in this book.
Wondeful Story about A Mother and Baby Whale.......2000-11-21
This is a great book for children to help them learn about Sperm Whales and provides children with an insight into life below the ocean waves. I would recomend this book to teachers who are looking for a book about Ocean Animals to share with their class. This would also be a good book for a mother to read to her daughter since it talks about the mother/daughter relationship of the whales in this book.
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For 50 million years, the gray whale has evolved along human shores, linking its history with human existence. Ancient and colossal, the gray whale weighs 45 tons and swims 10,000 miles along the West Coast each year from its Alaskan summer feeding grounds to winter birthing lagoons in Baja, Mexico. Proximity and beauty have made the gray whale a mysterious creature in the eyes of humans, sparking scientific wonder as well as many cultural and mythical interpretations.
In Sightings, Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson have crafted a narrative that extends far beyond the two worlds of whales and people. A celebrated Chickasaw writer, Hogan traces the history of hunting whales for subsistence and explains their significance in tribal mythology and songs. Peterson, an acclaimed novelist and nature writer, focuses on the world of science, describing the interconnectedness of animal-human relationships and scientifically reinforcing Hogan's assertion of the spiritual bond between people and whales. Together, they capture the realms in which the gray whale has become a legend, portraying the wonder—and fragility—of the whale and its environment.
Sightings is a story of tribal people, scientific researchers, fishermen, and the everyday inhabitants of the small, coastal communities whose lives are centered around the gray whale migration. A journey through water and time, Sightings is a masterful observation of one of the Earth's most enchanting creatures.
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SIGHTINGS.......2005-05-03
SIGHTINGS is an incredible book to read on the plight of Gray Whales. Although I started reading SIGHTINGS the last day on a cruise ship in Cabos, (literally, moments after photographing a large pod of dolphins leaping out of the ship's wake)... my husband and I even skipped meals because I could not pull my head up from non-stop reading of this fine book. Linda Hogan's proses through a Native American's eyes were very beautiful and insightful... Brenda Peterson pucked my heartstrings with her naturalist perspective for this amazing mammal's plight and journeys through an OCEANPLANET, all the while a majority of humankind believes it owns it, yet refuses to accept responsibility for what befalls this watery world's consequence. I encourage all to read this book... its pages will open your eyes and one will not be dissappointed. Several years ago, I was one of many that wrote letters to the Mexican Government concerning St. Ignacia's breeding grounds of the great Gray Whale. The book finally told me of the outcome. When I am sailing on my boat named Rumbledoll in Neah Bay, WA this summer, or in Mexico next year, I will be searching for Gray Whales and their children... with a renewed hope of their perservation for many milleniums to come.
Jadia Ward/Bright Eyes Creations
Required reading for going to see gray whales.......2004-01-23
This book, along with Serge Dedina's Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics,and Conservation in Baja California, is required reading for anyone who plans a whale watching trip in Baja.
A Book Like a Song.......2002-09-02
This splendid book is aptly named, for the powerful glimpses in these chapters, full of emotion and drama, carry the resonance and significance of a sighting of the heart-shaped breath plume and knuckled back of one of the largest, gentlest, and most enigmatic creatures on the planet.
Sightings is beautiful reading. Each of the short chapters is rich as a poem, and indeed, many read like song or poetry, each woman's distinctive voice blending and harmonizing with her co-author's.
This book is not the standard National Geographic fare--though the authors are skilled reporters and intrepid travellers, following the whales in kayaks, small planes, boats and ferries. Theirs are the sightings of writers who don't merely observe, but who feel their subjects and feel them deeply, who use their intuitions and emotions as well as their intellects to come to their powerful conclusion: that, in this era of mass extinction, to kill such a creature as the gray whale is "an act against creation."
How lucky are we that these talented, spirited women have written this compelling and important testament to that truth.
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Captured as a two-year-old calf off the coast of Iceland in 1979 by a fishing vessel, the killer whale who would become Keiko was soon sent to North America, struggling for many of his early years in captivity. Sent to live at an amusement park in Mexico City, the orca languished in a tank too small, in water too warm, and received an improper diet—and was soon beset by a vicious skin virus. But after he starred in director Richard DonnerÂ's hit film Free Willy in 1993, Keiko gained international celebrity as the most famous marine mammal in the world, as millions learned of his plight.
With the help of a dedicated team of environmentalists led by the Earth Island Institute and $7.5 million from the deep pockets of eccentric cellular-phone billionaire Craig McCaw, he was rescued from his critical illness and installed in a $7.3-million facility in Oregon that was designed to prepare him for a return to the wild. In a move that would cause controversy within the scientific, environmental, and marine park communities, he ultimately would return to his native Iceland where a team of keepers would attempt to release him, making the cinematic story that had captivated the worldÂ's children a reality.
Award-winning environmental writer Kenneth Brower has created a narrative that is by turns heartrending and exhilarating, re-creating the intricate, mesmerizing world of the sea in all its lushness. In bringing to life this unforgettable animal alongside the men and women who dedicated their lives to his return to the sea, Freeing Keiko illuminates much about human nature as well.
Praise for Kenneth BrowerÂ's A Song for Satawal:
“Like the work of Paul Gauguin and, perhaps, of Margaret Mead, this is a thoroughly romantic account, the product of an astral traveler-in-reverse who finds . . . more to marvel at than John Glenn ever did in space.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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Keiko is freed and back in the ocean!!!.......2006-04-25
This book was extremely interesting to me since I have loved dolphins & whales since being a kid! Also, I had actually had the chance to see Keiko at the Oregon Coast Aquarium and on the same vacation saw wild killer whales in the Ocean in Washington! Let me tell you, seeing them in the ocean is by far more enjoyable than any marine park. After much research about captivity of dolphins & whales, I have found out of the cruelty in capturing of ALL of these marine animals as well as few live very long at all in captivity! Killer whales rarely live past their teens in captivity with few exceptions. Some live days or just one or two years. In the wild they can live from 50-90 years. Lolita is one of those whales that needs to be released to her family like Keiko, she is at a park in Miami! The movie, "Free Willy" shows what these parks are about, money! This book is about Keiko the star of "Free Willy!" I recommend this book, however I don't agree with talking about evolution and animal psychics! God created Keiko & everything and anyone can say anything about what a whale or any animal thinks! This book does show how these animal psychics are fake due to different opinions between two of them. Also, one of them states that Keiko is lonely and wants to be around people, when at that time he is overwelmed with people's attention that he distances himself near a boat. I did not like that the author cuts down the "Free Willy" movie and is very critical of it. Had it not been for that movie, Keiko would have died in Mexico and he would not have written this book. Those few things are why I didn't give it five stars. The author seems to go off on comparisions to unrelated things of Keiko, Iceland, etc. that were boring in the first part of the book! Unfortunately, Keiko died. At least he lived 5 years out of captivity, in the ocean where he was captured. He did also interact with other killer whales, though he never found his family. Keiko swam over 800 miles in the ocean, much better than in circles in a cement, chlorinated tank. According to this book he also swam to depths of 350 feet! Though this book does not say if captivity is good or bad. This book just reaffirms my recent change of thought that captivity is BAD for All marine animals! I am going to read Ric O'Barrys book next, Behind the Dolphin Smile! He was Flipper's trainer who is now against dolphins & whales in captivity due to Flipper's death! Keiko had a rough life, yet is the most famous whale ever! His life had a sad ending, however if he had not been released, he still would die. I view Keiko's release as successful, and hopefully more captive killer whales and dolphins will be released because of Keiko! Also, mistakes made during Keiko's release, could be useful to future releases! If you like killer whales or dolphins this book is great with the exceptions I mentioned earlier!!!
Poorly written and exaggerated .......2006-01-02
I was disappointed with this book. I picked it up because I witnessed first hand the process of moving Keiko from Mexico City to Oregon, and in my opinion it was far more organized and professional than what the author describes. I was also disappointed by his extremely negative and condescending portrayal of the people involved, like Keiko's trainers and veterinarians.
These faults would maybe be more tolerable if the book was better written. However, the author has a short, direct style that does not engage the reader's imagination, and jumps from one subject to another - for example, stories and interesting anecdotes pertaining Keiko's transportation from Canada to Mexico only occupy a couple of paragraphs and are never satisfactorily concluded.
The book does pick up slightly afterwards, but the overall style and tone do not improve significantly.
Overall, it seems to me that in his zeal to indict businessmen and an entire Third World country as greedy, corrupt, insensitive and stupid, the author does a disservice to the memory of Keiko and the story of his liberation, and the efforts of all the parties involved.
A Magnificent Job.......2005-12-22
This is a cracking good adventure story with easy to absorb natural history, plenty of human conflict, eccentric characters, and a fine sense of humor. And, unlike its hero, it is by no means presented in black and white, but a myriad shades of grey. Brower does not shy away from controversy but wades into its middle, frequently expressing his own opinion of matters in dispute but never preaching. Top marks.
Shows true human nature in handling our own mistakes. .......2005-11-18
This book provides more then just a good read on the world's most famous killer whale. It shows the behind the scenes story of the controversy, the politics, and the cult following that surfaced because of the making of one kid's movie about a boy who helped a whale return to his family.
Honestly though, the best part of this book is that it shows the many sides of humans, more so then the whale himself, in dealing with such a pioneering project involving the world's largest underdog...an underweight and sick killer whale...who would go on to surprise the world with the lessons he teaches us about his species and our own. What the film SeaBiscuit did with telling the story of a man and his horse...this book does with the world and one whale.
Very good read...
Highly Recommend.......2005-11-04
I enjoyed this book tremendously, and I think that it addressed and clarified a lot of misinformation that was put out in the press. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about the Keiko project.
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These stories are a wonderful way for children to explore one of nature's most fascinating mysteries—the instinctive compulsion for animals to migrate over large distances. With poetic text and stunning illustrations, these tales evoke the majestic environments that each animal inhabits.
Newborn Little Grey, his mother Old Grey, and veteran helper Three Scars must survive a dangerous, long, and arduous first journey—from Baja, California, to the fertile feeding grounds of the Arctic.
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Whale Journey.......2001-01-05
The book is nicely written. However some of the sentences are a little long for some young readers. You may also find one or two words that require some explaining to the younger readers. The context is educational and the book has a calming effect on my children. It is a very nice book to add to a home or class room library.
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Journey to the End of the Whale
John David Morley
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Born on a ferry, orphaned two years later, Daniel Serraz free-floats into a career in insurance and marriage to Japanese interpreter Kozue. But ominous truths are resurfacing, bound up with the legend of his whale-hunting great grandfather and his parents' disappearance off the Indonesian coast.
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"The Twilight Seas".......2000-05-12
The book "The Twilight Seas" by Sally Carrigher was a terrific book. It was a very descriptive book. I really liked it. It is aboout a baby whale and the first crucial moments of his life. It is also about the migration routes and how careful the whale had to be when people were allowed to hunt them. I recommended this book to any person young (no younger than about 10) or old that really enjoys learning about animals and how they live. But it did have some unexcting points. Some times it was on a subject too long and it lost my interest sometimes. It used very advanced vocabulary that I didn't understand.
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Two Months before the Mast.......2003-06-02
I sailed to the Arctic on the Regina Maris in 1997, a couple years before Oxenhorn took his trip. Not quite the book I would have written, but I started out with greater expectations of discomfort and hardship. After all, it was the Arctic. Nonetheless, Oxenhard paints an accurate picture of life on a tall ship on the frigid edge of the world, and, more importantly, gives a true recounting of the deep personal changes that take place in everyone aboard on such a voyage. I sailed with many of the characters in the book, and would disagree with the more negative of Oxenhorn's descriptions of them, nonetheless, he does give a good feel for some of the friction that occurs on a long trip under difficult conditions with no privacy. Its a great pity that the good ship Regina Maris no more. I believe that everyone who sailed on her to the frozen north came back a deeply changed and better person. This book is perhaps the next best thing.
Eloquent, poignant, detailed, sparkling distillation.......2002-08-12
The late Harvey Oxenhorn secured an enduring legacy through his captivating, detailed account of his apprentice voyage on the tall ship, Regina Maris. He painstakingly chronicles all facets of life during the nine weeks spent traversing from Boston to the Arctic Ocean, recounting sights, sounds, encounters, and experiences at sea and on shore in various ports from Newfoundland to Greenland and back again.
The result is not one of those irritating "look, look at me" travel books or the ramblings of a self-absorbed trekker who intimidated his editor into leaving in the most boring of details but a refreshing recap of life at sea, warts and all..
Mr. Oxenhorn, motivated by a journey of spiritual discovery, soon finds his preconceived notions of life at sea challenged not only by the mundane, repetitive tasks that consume most hours, but also by his inexperience and fears that he must confront whether scaling the vertical matrix of ropes and sails or keeping watch in the middle of the night in all kinds of weather and knowing that his decisions and observation will affect the well-being of the crew and ship.
As the story unfolds-and more so as a novel than travelogue-Mr. Oxenhorn constantly finds surprising aspects about his crew mates that force him to reconsider them, and himself, in the context of this expedition and extrapolates from these experiences a growing sense of self-mastery and awareness of interdependence.
As he recounts late in the book, "But again, the main point wasn't the rules themselves. Nor was it to demonstrate someone's authority. . . Rather, it was to break down the habit of mind that makes exceptions and desires special treatment. To replace it with a heart called unity."
Though this notion may sound a bit like the process used to mold soldiers in boot camp, his ruminations regarding interdependence reach a deeper resonance when he argues, both convincingly and cogently, that "We have made ourselves responsible for the life that ours depends on, from copepods to whales. To think differently about these animals is to think differently about ourselves as well. From now on, we must all stand watch. One tribe. One family. One crew."
Mr. Oxenhorn takes great pains to present his facts and details with care, clearly having spent many hours researching and documenting his observations about everything from various seabirds, to the construction and operation of tall sailing ships, to traditional navigational methods involving sextant and compass and stars. His narrative jumps to life as he describes what it is like to be sailing on a wooden ship among "tabular icebergs twice the length of football fields and seven stories high."
The point of the expedition was to study whale populations, and the author provides enough information about whales, their place and role in the marine environment, and how humans have affected (almost always badly) the balance of nature. He provides just enough details about how the research is conducted, what key findings are made, and what sort of future might be in store for the whale populations. Mr. Oxenhorn does not come off sounding like a overzealous, gung-ho Greenpeacer hunkered down in a Zodiac; rather he applies the same sort of calm logic to why we must carefully manage the oceans as agrarian essayist Wendell Berry proffers.
Likewise he captures both the ugly and shining sides of human behavior and interactions aboard ship and shore, pulling no punches even from his characterizations of Captain George Nichols, with whom Mr. Oxenhorn butted heads----and came away chastised more than once----the mates, or his peer crewmates. More than once, I cringed at some of these depictions, wondering if the author might be overstepping his rights, but he never fails to reveal the good, sometimes surprising, qualities of his shipmates.
If I had been Mr. Oxenhorn's editor, I might have asked for more explanation of some of the nautical and sailing terms that pepper the chronicle, maybe a glossary for those of us who will never experience firsthand such an adventure. The map inside the front cover is useful, but not nearly detailed enough, and without including the longitude and latitude lines, a puzzling lapse I would attribute to the publisher, it's not easy to track the voyage sequentially. (Most chapter titles follow this convention, for example, "17 July. 63◦N/54◦W."
Those minor points aside, "Tuning the Rig" is the kind of book that causes you to postpone your own chores while you read about the myriad tasks of "field day" or the duties of the "galley slave." I cannot say that I now have the urge to spend two months at sea on a tall ship, but I am grateful to Mr. Oxenhorn for his splendid account. Had he not been the faultless victim of an automobile crash, Mr. Oxenhorn, who is also a published poet, might have made quite a name for himself.
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