First Grade has begun its study of whales! This week in the library, we shared three new books, each about a different species of whale. The first, Little Polar Bear and the Whales, by Dutch author Hans de Beer, is about a polar bear’s attempt to save some beluga whales from a whaling ship. In the second, Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem, author Marc Barnett shows what happens when Billy Twitter doesn’t listen to his mom and ends up with a pet whale for punishment. Our final story, Julia Donaldson’s book in verse, The Snail and the Whale

, describes the unlikely friendship that develops between a tiny snail who meets a humpback whale and set off on an adventure in a far-away land. We concluded with book browsing and check out. Happy Reading!