Author: Gail Gibbons
Narrator: Peter Fernandez
Unabridged: 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Live Oak Media
Published: 03/30/1993
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Animals
Gail Gibbons grew up writing stories and drawing pictures to fit the words, and wishing she lived in the country. After graduating from the University of Illinois with a bachelor of fine arts degree, she became involved in television graphics. Eventually Gail became a full-time writer and moved to rural Vermont, where she could have a garden and as many pets as she wanted. Winner of the 2010 Regina Medal, Gail has written & illustrated more than 140 books. Gail and her husband, Kent Ancliffe, have a dog named Wilbur and two cats, named Miles and Davis. They live in Corinth, Vermont in a passive solar house that Gail's husband built and on an island off the coast of Maine.
Updated from the earlier 1991 version, this picture book will certainly be one of the more popular titles in the Gail Gibbons collection. Whales tend to be of high interest to elementary and intermediate students, and with its detailed and softly-colored watercolor illustrations, this one will appea......more
