Fiction - Animals - Marine Life

Manatee Winter

Name: Manatee Winter
Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
ISBN: 9781568990767

by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Steven James Petruccio

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Overview

A mother manatee and her little calf travel from the Gulf of Mexico through dangerous water full of speeding boats.

Synopsis

This bountiful series introduces young readers to a myriad of animals who inhabit the earth's wet wonderlands.
-- A Parents' Choice Approval for 19 title book and tape series.
-- Each book includes an informative note and glossary full of fascinating facts confirmed by the Smithsonian Institution curators.
-- Read-along cassettes incorporate authentic sea sounds, such as real-life recordings of dolphins and whales.
-- Toys authenticated by Smithsonian Institution curators for realism.

Two gentle giants must swim up a Florida river to escape the chill of winter. Along the way, Little Calf dives deep -- and gets tangled in a clump of water-weeds. Can his mother save him?

About the Author, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld's books include Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?, Terrible Tyrannosaurs, and Dinosaur Babies, which School Library Journal said "will be welcomed with deserved delight by young dinophiles." She has also written Dinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young, an ALA Notable Book. Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld lives in Berkeley, California.