A Whale of a Tale! : All About Porpoises, Dolphins, and Whales Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2015) as if she has written

as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking

original and with a delightful eye for detail

he crashed a car in front of his entire high school in his fast food restaurant server's uniform

the impact of World War II

Darcy's switching things up

A Whale of a Tale! : All About Porpoises, Dolphins, and Whales Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2015) as if she has writtenOnboard 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 porpoisesthose 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 speciesincluding sperm, right, humpback, and blue whales; Gulf, spectacled, and