The Boy and the Whale

A boy and his father discover a whale tangled in their only fishing net. Is the whale...
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SKU: 9781626725058
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Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Boy and the Whale by Gerstein, Mordicai

The Boy and the Whale

CHF 30.42

The Boy and the Whale

CHF 30.42
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A boy and his father discover a whale tangled in their only fishing net. Is the whale dead? While the man worries about losing their net, the boy worries about the whale. He remembers the fear he felt when, caught in a net himself in childhood, he almost drowned before being rescued by his father. When the whale blinks an enormous eye, the boy knows that he has to try to save the creature, no matter how dangerous doing so may be.

Expressive and perfectly paced, this powerful story, The Boy and the Whale, by Caldecott Medal-winner Mordicai Gerstein was inspired in part by a real-life video of a whale's rescue, and the creature's joyful dance through the waves after being freed.

Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 11/21/2017
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.47w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781626725058
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.4
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 193657 / Boy and the Whale


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2017 pg. 69
School Library Journal 10/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2017
Booklist 10/01/2017 pg. 85
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 11/24/2017
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author

Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children's books from the library: I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating. The author of more than forty books, Gerstein lived in Westhampton, Massachusetts.

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