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    <body><![CDATA[I LOOOOVE this book series. I continue to reread it every few years.<br/><br/>Its written from the perspective of the Whales. It begins with the whale being born and pushed to the surface on his mother's back to take his first breath and takes you through the childhood frolicking and the great kri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62123422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is mostly unknown - but I fell in love with it when I was young. I think I was in about 6th grade when I was reading the third book (The Ice at the End of the World) while my family was traveling. We stopped to eat lunch at a restaurant just as the book was at its critical point. I begge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2851238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is incredibly beautiful.  I could almost believe that I was experiencing life as a whale as I read the wonderful descriptions.  The book also has meaning in another way.  This was one of the ones I read to my son after his heart surgery, and he loved it, too.  I found it as I was browsing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35085815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To this day, the Whalesong trilogy is one of my favorite books from my childhood.  It is a beautiful story about the life of a whale.  <br/>]]></body>
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