num_pages: 189
description: From the most celebrated childrens nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning Julie of the WolvesIn 1848 in Barrow Alaska a young Eskimo boy witnesses a rare sightthe birth of a bowhead or ice whale that he calls Siku. But when he unwittingly guides Yankee whalers to a pod of bowhead whales all the whales are killed. For this act the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the generations this curse is handed down. Siku the ice whale returns year after year in reality and dreams to haunt each descendant. The curse is finally broken when a daughter recognizes and saves the whale and he in turn saves her. Told in alternating voices both human and whale Jean Craighead Georges last novel is an ambitious and touching take on the interconnectedness of humans animals and the earth they depend on.
language: English
title: Ice Whale
publisher: Dial Books