Describes, in text and illustrations, the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of whales.

Amos the mouse and Boris the whale have little in common except that they are both mammals and save each other's lives.

Introduces the physical appearance, habits, diet, and habitat of the blue whale and threats to its existence.

Onboard a vessel that would make Jacques Cousteau green with envy, the Cat and Co. take to the high seas in search of whales, dolphins, and porpoises-those aquatic mammals known as cetaceans. While learning how cetaceans stay warm without hair, have teeth or baleen, swim in troops, spyhop, spin, breach, and see via ecolocation, kids are introduced to almost 20 different species-including sperm, right, humpback, and blue whales; Gulf, spectacled, and...