The Six Bridges of Humphrey the Whale by Toni Knapp. Illustrated by Craig Brown.

The Six Bridges of Humphrey the Whale

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The Six Bridges of Humphrey the Whale by Toni Knapp. Illustrated by Craig Brown. Roberts Rinehart, 1993 (1989).
Tells the true story of Humphrey, a whale that actually did get turned the wrong way and entered the San Francisco Bay.

• Compare and contrast to the account by Wendy Tokuda in Humphrey, the Lost Whale: A True Story (Heine, 1988). Tokuda's title is also a featured title in a Reading Rainbow® segment.
• Investigate information about humpback whales.
• Draw and label a food chain for Humphrey.
• Read other books about whales, for example:
• Whale Song by Tony Johnston (Putnam, 1987), and
• The Search for the Right Whale by Scott Kraus and Kenneth Mallory (Crown, 1993).

Text © 1996-2003 Sharron McElmeel
Illustrations © 1989, 1997 Craig Brown.

The Six Bridges of Humphrey the Whale page on the Craig Brown web site created on July 24, 1997.

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