- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Dutton Children Books (Sep 1 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525651268
- ISBN-13: 978-0525651260
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 17.6 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5-A handsome, readable book that combines general information with the personal record of the trip made by Sobol and his son to the birthing grounds of the harp seal on a pack of ice in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence. Lavishly illustrated with crisp full-color photos, Seal Journey gives insight into the life cycle of the harp seal, the history of efforts to curtail the brutal clubbings of the snowy pups for their shimmering coats (for this herd at least), and the feelings of a young boy who watches pups being born, nursing, and learning to swim. Report writers may cling to Olga Cossi's more detailed Harp Seals (Carolrhoda, 1991), but readers will enjoy accompanying Jonah and his father in the chill bitter cold of an early Arctic spring. A page of seal facts will aid researchers.
Patricia Manning, Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Patricia Manning, Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 6-8. Black-eyed, white-furred seal pups are among the most appealing of animals, and Sobol's pictures, taken on a breeding island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, make the most of their photogenic quality. He shows a pup so newborn that its coat is still matted and stained from the birth canal. He shows the same pup nursing, older pups learning to swim or wriggle their way over the snow, and the whole colony spread across the snow, looking like chocolate sprinkles scattered on top of a huge bowl of vanilla ice cream. His text relates the long struggle to prohibit the clubbing of these newborns and to protect the breeding grounds. Sobol took his eight-year-old son Jonah with him, and his photographs of Jonah petting and holding one of the pups should arouse both interest and envy among young readers. A well-written text with excellent photographs. Sheilamae O'Hara
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Brief but Entertaining Look at the Life of a Seal Pup,
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This review is from: Seal Journey (Hardcover)
Reason for Reading: I am reading Richard Sobol's entire backlist with my son and discussing the life of a photographer/photojournalist as a career option while doing so. This is the final book for us to read.A short read with lots of illustrations. The author brought his son with him on this assignment and the story is told through both of their points of view. The reader is generally shown the complete life of a seal pup from birth until it is abandoned by it's mother. Then it describes at this point how it will take the cub a couple more years until he is ready to join in the mating ritual and complete the life cycle again. There is only scant page time spent on the controversial hunting practices and no photographs of this are shown. They stick to the beauty of the animal. An entertaining, if brief, account of an animal's way of life
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Entertaining, though brief, look at Seal pup's life,
By Nicola Manning - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Seal Journey (Hardcover)
Reason for Reading: I am reading Richard Sobol's entire backlist with my son and discussing the life of a photographer/photojournalist as a career option while doing so. This is the final book for us to read.A short read with lots of illustrations. The author brought his son with him on this assignment and the story is told through both of their points of view. The reader is generally shown the complete life of a seal pup from birth until it is abandoned by it's mother. Then it describes at this point how it will take the cub a couple more years until he is ready to join in the mating ritual and complete the life cycle again. There is only scant page time spent on the controversial hunting practices and no photographs of this are shown. They stick to the beauty of the animal. An entertaining, if brief, account of an animal's way of life |
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