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While spending the day in their boat on the sea, Mr. Magee and his dog get caught up in wacky adventures with a playful pod of whales.

Dario, a Brazilian boy who speaks little English, has trouble making friends when his mother gets a job at a Cape Cod restaurant, but soon he meets a right whale.

There is a legend that a Great Spotted Whale lives in the ocean, although a sighting fifty years ago was never corroborated. Now two young whale watchers each set out to find the whale, one armed with sound-recording equipment, the other with a camera. When their boats collide, they pool their resources to capture incontrovertible proof that the mythical whale exists. The eventual sighting is a magical moment, especially when the children discover...

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

A young whale enjoys its first day of independence.

Defeated by an unruly bunch of pirates who throw him overboard, a once-fearsome pirate is rescued by a mermaid only to be swallowed by a whale who suffers from indigestion because of a treasure-laden ship in its tummy.

Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.

A young boy discovers a whale in his pool and tries everything he can think of to get it out.

Young Glashka's dream of the singing of whales, accompanied by a special kind of music, leads to the rescue of thousands of whales stranded in a freezing Siberian bay.

"Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. The boy is lonely, until one night, a storm brings a very unexpected change."--Book jacket.