Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall Binding:Hardcover ✦ Pura Belpré Honor Book

✦ Pura Belpré Honor Book for Children's Text ✦

From Señora Luisa

Now in their new apartment in the big city

Though all our brains look the same

During a meteor shower

Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall Binding:Hardcover ✦ Pura Belpré Honor BookWinner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal Follow a blue whale's enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish. All living things must one day die, and Earth's largest creature, the majestic blue whale, is no exception. But in nature, death is never a true ending. When this whale closes her eyes for the last time in her 90 year life, a process known as whale fall is just beginning. Her body will