What an exquiste and fascinating book!! As I read, I was amazed at God's wisdom and creativity as I learned about how a whale fall supports many organisms and continuing life on earth. Not only is this book full of mind-blowing facts about creation, it contains beautiful language. Ms. Brunelle incorporates alliteration, similes, and apt verbs. She also offers the reader a better understanding of size by comparing the whale and its body parts to common objects. Diagrams and side illustrations support the text.
Although the age range is for ages six to ten, I am going to have my ninth grader read it for biology. It connects to many terms he has been learning this year. Numerous ages (from elementary through high school) will be enthralled with this book.
World magazine, January, 2025, featured this book as an honorable mention book for children's nonfiction for their 2024 Books of the Year picks. I am so glad they brought this book to my attention.
**Highly, highly recommend.
Consideration/discuss: reference to "billions of years"-old earth view, the whale dies (but hope abounds as the reader sees how it benefits swarms of life and future whales)
I see Melissa Stewart also wrote a picture book about this topic. I will be requesting it, reading it, and reviewing it soon.
-Borrowed from the library.
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