Introduces the physical characteristics, habitats, life cycle, and eating habits of dolphins.

Provides information about dolphins, including anatomy, behavior, and intelligence.

A very sick dolphin is nursed back to health by the staff of a marine aquarium and years later has a baby that becomes the star of the show there.

After a baby dolphin is born in the vast ocean, his mother and other dolphins help him as he learns and grows.

Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text introduce readers to the special life cycle, behavior, physical characteristics, and habitat of dolphins. Beautiful images aid student's exploration of these aquatic mammals above and below the oceans surface.

"Did you know that baby dolphins are usually born tail-first? Did you know that each dolphin has a unique whistle (like a human's fingerprints) that makes them instantly recognizable to their friends? Did you know that killer whales are actually a kind of dolphin?" -- from jacket.

"Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Dolphins, emergent readers learn about dolphins as they swim in the ocean. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Dolphins includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index, and review questions. Dolphins...

Explores the similarities between dolphins and porpoises, and how to tell them apart. Discover how traits like body shape, nose size, and dorsal fin shape can be used to identify these underwater mammals. Additional features include a side-by-side comparison of the animals, an activity encouraging readers to demonstrate their knowledge, a phonetic glossary, sources for further reading, an introduction to the author, and an index.-- provided by publisher....

"Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world--its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies--that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race. Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinner dolphin who has recently come of age, she's now expected to join in the elaborate rituals that unite her pod. But Ea suffers from a type of deafness that prevents her from mastering...