Exploring the World of Whales

by Tracy Read

With sturdy, streamlined bodies, outfitted with insulating blubber, flippers, tail flukes and fins, whales -- all known as cetaceans -- are built for life in the water. In Exploring the World of Whales, we meet the baleen whales and the largest members of the toothed whales, including the killer whale, the biggest of the dolphins. These marine mammals range in size from the 108-foot-long (33 m) blue whale to the barely 9-foot-long (2.7...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770859497
• ISBN13: 9781770859494
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.9" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7