The Longest Whale Song

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The Longest Whale Song

The Longest Whale Song

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Ella - A lonely young 8-year-old girl, who is worried out of her mind for the safety of her mother. Her favorite animal becomes the whale as she studies about them to try and bring her mother out of the coma. She hates her stepfather and blames him for everything. Her real father comes to visit her out of the blues and he buys her a guinea-pig. I normally love Jacqueline Wilson, but I was disappointed with The Longest Whale Song. It seemed like a book to fill her contract, to be honest. Ella is very hard to like, and I think this is her worst ever book." Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. She has sold millions of books and in the UK alone the total now stands at over 35 million! After that, his work with the military went “downhill”, he says. “I wanted everything I worked on to be published in the open literature – I didn’t want things to remain classified. I was more concerned about my contribution to science.” Unanswered questions This book is witty yet full of emotion. It really transports you into Ella's shoes. However, it didn't have as much going on as I would've liked and if you enjoy novels full of thrills with lots going on, this isn't for you."

This book is very good, it has a good story line. I couldn't put it down when I first started reading it, and finished it in two nights!"For 15 years, the navy kept the knowledge of whale songs a secret, until in 1967 engineer Frank Watlington gave recordings of the songs to biologist Roger Payne, who was a specialist in bat and owl vocalisations. Watlington had discovered that the whale songs consisted of a series of phrases that would be repeated perfectly, over and over.

A really amazing, touching novel. I can just imagine what Ella must be feeling during such a scary time." Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first “novel” when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Since having her daughter, Emma, she has been writing full time. Prof Cao will continue to study the echolocation of toothed whales because this and other questions remain. As Prof Au, who studied dolphin echolocation for four decades puts it: “These are fascinating animals with very fascinating abilities – these are the things that keep zoologists going.”After I read a snippet of the book, I thought it was going to be really boring. However, after reading the whole thing, I think it's really good!"

I do want to read the book, but my school does not have it and it is a bit pricey for me. So as anxious as I am to read it, I don't think I will have the opportunity for a very long time." For us, we have two eyes, which we use to form three dimensional images. But with their acoustic system, we still don’t know how they receive information from objects at different angles. It could be that they use their ears, or it could be that they use their teeth – we still don’t know.”He discovered that animals in the wild emit echolocation chirps that are up to 100 times louder than animals in captivity (the only animals that had been studied in detail). The animals vary the volume of their vocal calls, he says, to suit their environment – hence why animals in tanks are much quieter. This finding was so “astonishing” he says that his first research paper was rejected because the animal’s capacities seemed improbable. Baleen whales use this channel not just for communicating with each other, but also for navigating, by listening to the echoes of their calls bouncing off distant ocean shelves and coastlines, creating mental maps of the ocean.

I read this and thought it was really good! Some bits could have been a bit longer, but overall it was a very good read!" Though ancient sailors were known to hear the calls of whales through the hulls of ships, they likely didn’t know what they were hearing (and it is thought attributed the sounds to mermaids). Scientists only discovered whale song in the 1950s when American scientists stationed in Bermuda heard the calls while listening out for Russian submarines. This book is a bit different to her others, but I still think it's fab. Keep on writing Jacqueline! My friends and I think you're a real inspiration!" The Longest Whale Song is very emotional. I have just about finished all of Jacqueline's books and this one is the best so far!" Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings.

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I haven't read The Longest Whale Song yet but I love all of Jacqueline Wilson's books and I'd like to read it!" I didn't really think I'd enjoy it, but I got given it for a present and it was a lot better than I expected. The storyline was typical of Jacqueline Wilson and like all her books, there was something unique in it."



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