Project Whale ANNOTATION
Walter Coleman takes six tourists on his boat to observe the gray whales giving birth in a protected lagoon. Similar fictional vignettes combined with factual information focus on the behavior and endangered situation of several species of whales.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
This is the story of the world's largest whales and the struggle to save them from extinction. Each story is told from the viewpoints of three people who, in very different ways, control the animals' fate.
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature - Beverly Kobrin
You will find that Project Whale is a deft blend of fact and fiction-ready-made for readers' theater. Author Jill Bailey created a cast of characters-a gray-whale- watching guide, researchers, a retired whaler-whose information- packed dialogue is ready to read as is. Delegate chapters or smaller sections to groups of youngsters and show how descriptive prose can be divided among two or more narrators or rewritten as additional dialogue. Set youngster to work selecting parts, adapting and rewriting as they see fit, and once practiced, invite them up front to read. Part of the "Save Our Species" series.
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