Description Share Post The Whale that Sings in the Deep Yuval Zommer (OUP) The calf watches ‘the sun/ shining over snow…/ and fire boiling over ice‘ as it swims with its mother. Thereafter, it’s time to swim alone, through a ‘sea- full of krill‘. It seems this it time that this wonderful creature must begin its long journey. This is The Whale that Sings in the Deep. Yuval Zommer tracks the blue whale’s course, passing ‘misty lands‘ and huge cruising ships, drifting and dreaming beneath sunsets and moonlit nights. Thereafter, though its cause is set, there are storms to pass through, fishing boats to spy, birds that fly overhead, scientists, holidaymakers, nets and more big ships. Although the whale’s lonely, its songs echo through the depths to its ‘mother and father, brothers and sisters far, far away‘. It seems that while this creature’s journey is alone, and dangerous, there is the inspiration of warmth and comfort of incidental company along the way and thereafter the hope of its destination. How beautiful! Like A Thing Called Snow, for example, this book is rich with the writer’s poetic text, alongside lush, fluent pictures. Then again, we’re treated to a double page of facts that detail the remarkable travels of this wonderful creature. Bookwagon loves The Whale that Sings in the Deep.
