Author: Henry Eismann
Illustrator: Jay Campbell
Year Published: 1985
The
Gist of It: This is the story of a real humpback whale that wound up in the San Francisco Bay and how the people of San Francisco got him back out to sea to rejoin his pod.
This is a really simple book that mostly just states the facts, but it does so in an entertaining way. Reading this book you worry as Hump-Free keeps going further and further from the ocean and are happy for him once he makes his safe return. I think this book is unique the the norm of animal books because while it is about Hump-Free, the author doesn't anthropomorphize him. The illustrations are well done. Since Hump-Free is in water all the time it may have been difficult to show what he was doing as well as what was going on above the surface, but Campbell eliminated the problem in a very aesthetic way.
On
the Bookshelf? Yes. It is always encouraging to see people doing the right thing and the people who help Hump-Free in this book do just that.
Year Published: 1985
The
Gist of It: This is the story of a real humpback whale that wound up in the San Francisco Bay and how the people of San Francisco got him back out to sea to rejoin his pod.
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