Book Description
Describes how a migrating humpback whale mistakenly entered the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam sixty-four miles inland before being led back to the sea by people concerned for his welfare.
Author : Wendy Tokuda
Publisher : Heian International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 9780893462703
Describes how a migrating humpback whale mistakenly entered the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam sixty-four miles inland before being led back to the sea by people concerned for his welfare.
Author : John Heus
Publisher : Brost-Heus
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780961610906
A simple rhyming text recounts how a humpback whale entered the San Francisco Bay and swam over fifty miles up the Sacramento River before being lured back to the sea.
Author : Wendy Tokuda
Publisher : Heian International Publishing Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 1992-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780893463465
The true story of Wrong Way Humphrey
Author : Nancy Pidutti
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1973603497
Join Humphrey for an exciting adventure as this baby whale travels with his mother to their feeding grounds in the north. Experience the terror as Humphreys life is in danger, and feel the relief as the love of a father and son rescue him.
Author : Kathryn Allen Goldner
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780875183602
Introduces information on the behavior and current situation of humpback whales through the story of an individual whale off the coast of California.
Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1684446821
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this latest book by acclaimed science writer April Pulley Sayre, young readers follow along as a mother humpback whale and her calf make their annual trek from the warm waters of the Caribbean to their summer feeding grounds off the coast of New England and back again. Within this extraordinary story of migration, Sayre provides information about how humpback whales breathe, sing, and how they got their name—a secondary layer of text expands upon the more intricate details. But aside from the basics about the humpback whale species, HERE COME THE HUMPBACKS! also delves into the dangers these whales face—from other mammals and sea life such as hungry orcas, to man-made threats like pollution and giant ships. Jamie Hogan’s stunning, rich pastel illustrations complement Sayre’s text beautifully, and make this book a great choice for a read-aloud in the classroom, library, or at home.
Author : Ted Hughes
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0571278833
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 God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the North Pole by the other animals who were jealous that she always won the annual beauty contest; the Hare has asked the moon to marry him but can never stretch his ears high enough to hear her reply; the Bee must sip honey all day long to sweeten the bitter demon that runs through his veins . . . each story is a delight for reading alone or aloud.
Author : Lynne Cox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156034678
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 its mother and had been following her instead, and relates her efforts to find the baby's mother.
Author : William Humphrey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1504006356
From the acclaimed author of Home from the Hill and The Ordways comes a charming and erudite account of what happens when the fish hooks the fisherman In the Berkshire mountains, novelist and avid outdoorsman William Humphrey discovers a gigantic, one-eyed brown trout lazing in the shallows of a roadside stream. Between three and four feet long and weighing more than thirty pounds, it is a fish too big not to be fished for. It is also, therefore, a fish too big to be caught. Yet Humphrey resolves to do just that, and with a dry fly, no less. What follows is a season-long pursuit of the impossible as the amateur angler practices his technique, devises schemes for getting old One-eye to bite, and steels himself for the climactic showdown. Man and trout will find that they have much to learn from each other. One of the finest fishing stories ever published, My Moby Dick is a small masterpiece about a whale of a fish. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Humphrey including rare photos form the author’s estate.
Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1101617845
"Intelligent and highly nuanced… This book may bring tears to your eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of the century, and scientists now concede that most of America’s endangered animals will survive only if conservationists keep rigging the world around them in their favor. So Mooallem ventures into the field, often taking his daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those creatures feel more real. Wild Ones is a tour through our environmental moment and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that inflects it—from Thomas Jefferson’s celebrations of early abundance to the turn-of the-last-century origins of the teddy bear to the whale-loving hippies of the 1970s. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without the easy moralizing and nature worship of environmental journalism’s older guard, Wild Ones merges reportage, science, and history into a humane and endearing meditation on what it means to live in, and bring a life into, a broken world.