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The Whale by Theodore Roethke
Whale Sailing by Helen H. Moore
Whopper! by Jack Prelutsky
Dolphins by Helen H. Moore
Dolphin by Meish Goldish
The Whale by Theodore Roethke
Around
their igloo fires with glee
The Eskimos tell tales
Of Narwhal. Listen and you'll see
This unicorn of whales
Through frosty waves off Greenland's coast
Majestically advance.
And like a knight come forth to joust
Hold high its wary lance.
X.J. Kennedy
"I
am big," said the monkey.
"I am small," said the snail.
"I am tiny," said the spider.
"I am huge," said the whale.
"We
are big," said the childen.
"We are bigger than the snail.
We are bigger than the spider.
But we're smaller than the whale."
by
Avelyn Davidson, How Big is Big? Math Rhymes to Read
Together, Wright Group (
has
5 copies and big book)
There
was a most Monstrous Whale:
He had no skin , he had no tail.
When he tried to spout , that Great Big Lubber, The best he could do was
Jiggle his Blubber.
by Theodore Roethke
Dolphins,
dolphins in a pod,
Their
squeaking language sounds so odd.
To us, that is,
but maybe we
sound odd to dolphins in the sea.
by Helen H. Moore
|
Would
you go for a sail There's
a lot you could see So
please take the chance, if the chance you should get, by Helen H. Moore |
what
sets dolphins apart?
They're very smart!
What makes dolphins first-rate?
They communicate!
How do dolphins "speak"?
They click, whistle, and squeak!
How was this information found?
By recording their sound!
by Meish Goldish, Animal Poems from A - Z
There
was a most Monstrous Whale:
He had no Skin, he had no Tail.
When he tried to Spout, that Great Big Lubber,
The best he could do was Jiggle his Blubber.
Theodore Roethke
I
am sitting in the middle
of a whopper of a whale,
where there's scant illumination,
and the air is still and stale.
My monotonous enclosure
is predominantly gray,
and is surely no location
I would choose to spend my day.
There
is no one to converse with
in a whale's digestive tract.
I am bored with my surroundings,
and I wish that I had packed.
Without any sort of warning
I was eaten like a bean.
Now I'm stranded in the center
of a living submarine.
I
see no way of escaping,
so I'm throwing up my hands,
and unless I'm extricated,
I'm not making any plans.
I'd appreciate suggestions,
simply drop them in the mail.
Just address them to the belly
of this whopper of a whale.
Jack Prelutsky, from A Pizza the Size of the Sun
