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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: A Whale On Her Own: The True Story of Wilma The Beluga Whale by Brian Skerry
Description: Photos by Brian Skerry
Can you imagine what it would be like to swim with a whale? Gliding beneath the blue ocean waves. Bobbing gently as a huge, graceful animal pulls you along. It would be truly magical to explore the sea this way! For such a thing to happen, a whale would have to want to be with you. But whales are wild animals. They rarely come face to face with humans. Once in a while, however, the lives of humans and wild animals come together in an unpredictable way. And, when they do, it seems...