Fast-Talking Dolphin

by Carson Davidson

Book Overview

When Eric finds a talking dolphin in a trout pond in New England, he uses all his knowledge and skills to save its life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590425137
• ISBN13: 9780590425131
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Please don't go out of print!

This was a much-loved book of mine from childhood. I had the pleasure of reading my much-worn copy to my son, and we soooo enjoyed it together. Wallingford is a highly educated talking dolphin (think Charles Winchester III from MASH here!) He has a talent for speaking in anapestic poetry. His troubles begin when, en route to a convention, he falls from an airplane and lands in a pond on a New England mountain. And this is where the boy named Eric meets him. Thank you, Carson Davidson, for a wonderful story.

"it's like free willy meets 8 mile!!!"

this book is about a dolphin who has fallen from a plane while on the way to a dolphin's convention. he only speaks in rhyme. he has a bigger vocabulary than me, and i'm in college! he befriends a plucky young boy who gets a part-time job in order to feed him fish and salt the trout pond (the dolphin has a page-long rhyme about how he's feeling "ill" when he's in a freshwater environment.) this book is hilarious good times!

Great story on a dolphin in unusual circumstances!

"I don't care much for people - They talk all the time - What they say is a bore - And they can't even rhyme"!Eric Anderson can't believe his eyes - or his ears! What is a dolphin, a rhyme-talking dolphin, doing in a New England trout pond? Simple. Wallingford Ullingham Lowell, the Third - Wallingford for short - claims he was on his way to a big oceanography conference. Somehow, he fell out of his plane into the pond near the Anderson's farm. As Eric and the exasperating Wallingford become friends, Eric's life gets crazier and crazier. Then mean Mr. Benson, who owns the pond, finds out about Wallingford! Can Eric save Wallingford? Will Wallingford ever leave that trout pond alive? This excerpt taken from the cover due to no other reviews. This is a cute book with neat drawings too.