Sea Full of Whales

by Richard Armour, Paul Galdone (Illustrator)

A rhymed introduction to the characteristics of the various members of the whale family.

Genres: Poetry, Childrens, Nonfiction, Science

38 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[D Nine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of interesting whale facts with imagery children will understand. The rhythm of the story musically entrances the listener.

[Dee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing poetry and science too! Awesome!

[Alicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book of poetry about whales. I like this as a way of introducing poetry to young children.

[Adrianne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quite possibly the worst kids book I've ever read. Atrocious rhymes. I had to skip large sections of the killer whale poem because it was inappropriate for a 3 year old.