Picture Book - Do the Whales Still Sing?

(ages 5-9)

Published by: Dial, New York, USA

Illustrated by Jude Daly

In DO THE WHALES STILL SING, Pete, the lighthouse boy, gathers driftwood for a wood-carver. The old man tells him a strange story of a fearless whalerman who becomes enchanted by strange music.

The inspiration for this story came from a tape recording of humpback whale songs. I grew up in a fishing village in a bay where whales had once been abundant. A wonderful discovery was to find that my illustrator, Jude Daly, grew up on the opposite side of the same bay and was the great grand-daughter of a sail maker and the daughter of a sea captain.

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