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PreS-Gr 2—In this wonderfully illustrated imaginative tale, a father and son take their fishing boat out to sea. After a long day of fishing, the boy notices a distressed whale in the distance and although the father is eager to get home, the boy insists that they investigate. Upon approaching, they see that the whale is tangled up in fishing lines. In a dramatic rescue, the father frees the magnificent creatu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this dramatic wordless tale, a commercial fisherman and what appears to be his son collect fish in the large net thrown from their boat. They sail on-that is, until the boy notices their fishing lines have entangled a whale. At the boy's urging-the gestures between the boy and man give the story a nail-biting momentum-the father dives into the ocean to free the creature. Lanan's watercolor and gouache paintings are expansive and cinematic as she takes readers under the water; gives us aerial views; and,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More