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Music of Dolphins [Paperback]

Karen Hesse (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly

"As moving as a sonnet, as eloquently structured as a bell curve," said PW in a starred review of this first-person novel by the Newbery Medalist about a girl who is raised by dolphins and studied by scientists. Ages 9-12.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Grade 4-8-This audio version of the book by Karen Hesse (Scholastic, 1969) is spellbinding. Mila has been raised by dolphins. When the Coast Guard discovers her, she is taken to a research facility and has to adjust to living with humans. She slowly acquires language and develops a love for music. Her love for music gives her insight into the human world yet allows her to remain connected to her dolphin world. Mila is very observant of her human caretakers and asks thought-provoking questions as to why humans behave as we do. The narration by Michele McHall and the original musical score enhance the story. McHall portrays the young Mila with a youthful voice; as Mila matures so does her voice. The musical score evokes the sounds of the sea and the dolphins. Mila will linger in the minds of listeners even when the tape is over. This extraordinary tale will enchant listeners and be popular in middle school and public libraries.
Ginny Harrell, William McGarrah Elementary School, Morrow, GA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A popular book for girls in our school, July 25 2001
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Volkert Volkersz (Snohomish, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Music of Dolphins (Hardcover)
"The Music of Dolphins" has been a fairly popular book with 5th and 6th grade girls in our elementary school library, so I decided to listen to the audio-book on cassette read by the actress Michele McHall.

Just as Karen Hesse starts the book with large print and simple language, McHall reads the first part of the book in a slow, halting and almost annoying high-pitched voice. My teenaged son--who normallly loves to listen to books on tape--was so annoyed by this, he quit listening within the first few chapters.

However, just as the font in the book gets smaller and the language gets smoother, McHall's version of Mila's voice becomes easier to listen to as Mila ajdusts to being removed from her dolphin family and living with scientists who teach her English and music, while they study her in hopes of learning dolphin language.

Both the book and the audio-book have an atmosphere that grows on you, and it's easy to get caught up in Mila's confusion, hopes, concern for another feral child, and stirrings of love. In the end, you're left to ponder the question of what it means to be a human. I think that's why this book is so deceptively simple, when it's really dealing with some pretty profound questions.

Although I'm troubled with Karen Hesse's conclusion that a girl raised by dolphins is more "human" than the humans who care for her and study her, it does force you to stop and think about what the good qualities in human beings should be like.

I think my son would agree that this is a "girl's book," but it's certainly one that deserves to be read, discussed and pondered.

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2.0 out of 5 stars The Music of Dolphins, May 24 2001
This review is from: The Music of Dolphins (Hardcover)
In my opinion, this is a great book for someone who loves dolphins. Other then that, it's not a very good book. One of the only things I really liked about this book was the part when Mila became humanized, and had to adapt to the human ways after living as a dolphin for about ten years. That was pretty interesting.
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2.0 out of 5 stars An impossible plot: a girl taken from the wild to a hospital, May 7 1999
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In Karen Hesse's novel The Music Of the Dolphins, a young girl is taken from the wild and brought to the world of people and placed in a government hospital. I found this book to be unreasonably horrible. There didn't seem to be a poit to it; a first grader could have predicted what was going to happen. Plus a young, teenage girl couldn't live in the wild with dolphins for thirteen years of her life. It would be impossible. She would have either starved to death or been eaten or critically injured by a large animal. Then to try to teach this girl the way of people wouldn't be successfull. I believe that if this could happen any attempts to recover her would fail.
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