Calling the Whales
Author(s): Jasbinder Bilan
Children - 9 to 14 | 2024 Catalogue
After rowing out to an island near their seaside home, Tulsi and Satchen discover a whale that has been trapped in a fishing net.
Determined to try to free the poor creature, they repeatedly dive down into the freezing sea to cut the netting, but eventually, exhausted and with a storm rolling in, they have to admit defeat. As they head for home to seek help, their boat capsizes in the storm and they're left clinging to it, dangerously adrift. Just as they think all is lost, help arrives from an unexpected source.
A thrilling adventure with a powerful message about how we need to protect the oceans.
Product Information
'A powerful story to resonate with all those who value the wild world and the need to protect it.' - Gill Lewis
Jasbinder Bilan was born in India, close to the Himalayas, before moving to Nottingham as a child. She graduated from Bath Spa University and has gone on to write several books for children, winning a plethora of awards for her work. Her debut novel Asha and the Spirit Bird was awarded the Times/Chicken House Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Jasbinder is also an active member of Authors4Oceans, an organisation campaigning to clean our oceans of plastic.
General Fields
- :
- : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- : Harper Element
- : 0.01
- : 01 August 2023
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Jasbinder Bilan
- : Paperback
- : Skylar White
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 80
- : YFP