This morning on
WCAI naturalist Dennis Minsky and Head of Reference & Adult Services, Jill Erickson joined Mindy Todd to talk about books having to do with whales and whaling. Miss the show? You can listen
online!
Dennis’s Picks
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
Ice Whale by Jean Craighead George
Grayson by Lynne Cox
A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat
The Moon by Whale Light by Diane Ackerman
Whale by Joe Roman
Cape Cod Shore Whaling by John Braginton-Smith and Duncan Oliver
Wings In the Sea: the humpback whale by Lois King Winn & Howard E. Winn
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
Moby Dick Big Read Listen to
Moby-Dick online read by Tilda Swinton, Dennis Minsky, Simon Callow and many others.
Jill’s Picks
Treasures of the Whaling Museum: touchstones to the region’s past
A Whaler’s Dictionary by Dan Beachy-Quick
Moby-Dick in Pictures: one drawing for every page by Matt Kish
Living with Whales: documents and oral histories of native New England whaling history edited by Nancy Shoemaker
“The Wellfleet Whale” by Stanley Kunitz included in
Passing Through: the later poems new and selected
The Whiteness of the Whale by David Poyer
Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
Picture Books
Amos & Boris by William Steig
Whale Trails Before and Now by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by G. Brain Karas
The Stranded Whale by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Melanie Cataldo
An Ocean World by Peter Sis
We pre-recorded this show, but our twitter feed got some book suggestions!
If You Want to See a Whale words by Julie Fogliano; pictures by Erin E. Stead
