Souvenir Press 1969
Month by month, the reader follows Little Calf from the moment of his birth in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. At birth he is 14 feet long and weighs a ton. In the process he learns about migrations, and the courtship of whales, the fierce battles they wage in the sea, and their protective attitude towards their own kind. The book is filled with intriguing facts and figures and these emerge gracefully through the narrative and the alternating factual text...