The real-life story of how the world's most famous female long-distance swimmer encountered a grey whale separated from its mother - and how she helped to reuni

When Captain Pinkney brings the carcass of a dead whale to Johnstown, Illinois, Tommy and his friend Ben go and pay to get a look.

The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from

This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in

In The Sounding of the Whale, D.