The Longest Whale Song

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My goal as a researcher is not to talk to whales. My goal as a researcher is to find out how whales talk to each other. And that is a big and extremely important difference,” she says. I read this and thought it was really good! Some bits could have been a bit longer, but overall it was a very good read!" I haven't read The Longest Whale Song yet but I love all of Jacqueline Wilson's books and I'd like to read it!" Double Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award.

However, despite these restrictions, scientists have developed a theoretical understanding of how whale noises are formed. The Longest Whale Song is very emotional. I have just about finished all of Jacqueline's books and this one is the best so far!" Not only can baleen whales emit calls that travel farther than any other voice in the animal kingdom, these giants of the deep also create the loudest vocalisations of any creature on earth: the call of a blue whale can reach 180 decibels – as loud as a jet plane, a world record. The longest song of all

Long before the navy figured out how to harness the acoustic properties of the ocean’s depths to send signals as far as possible, whales developed behavioural strategies to communicate with each other over enormous distances: the call of a fin whale for example may travel 250km at the surface, but more than 6,000km in the deep sound channel. After I read a snippet of the book, I thought it was going to be really boring. However, after reading the whole thing, I think it's really good!" You can see how echolocation would evolve if you’re in a dark environment like a cave or the deep ocean – there are in fact many blind humans who have learned how to echolocate, and even normal sighted people can tell if they are in a huge chamber or a crowded room just by listening to the acoustics,” he says. “But while bats have a typical mammalian ear, cetaceans have a much more specialised system.” Evolving for sound Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings.

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first “novel” when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Since having her daughter, Emma, she has been writing full time. I can't wait to get this book, it looks great! I have read the extract from the Jacqueline Wilson magazine so I am already part way into the book!"After that, his work with the military went “downhill”, he says. “I wanted everything I worked on to be published in the open literature – I didn’t want things to remain classified. I was more concerned about my contribution to science.” Unanswered questions

I've only read the taster for this book so far and I think it's really good, although it's quite easy to read." It's at school, her teacher gets her involved in whales and the topic fascinates her so much that she creates a while book fully illustrated by her which she's extremely proud of, she even later discovers the longest song by a whale and plays it to her mum to try and stir her in the hospital. This book is very good, it has a good story line. I couldn't put it down when I first started reading it, and finished it in two nights!" I loved this book! I couldn't put it down and loved the fact that it's different to her other books!" One of the big differences between us and whales is that when we produce sound, air expels from our mouth – we are inhaling and exhaling as we do so. Whereas when whales vocalise, they're doing so underwater in a closed system – they’re moving air around internally .” Will we ever be able to talk to whales?This book looks really good, I love Jacqueline Wilson! I have read many of her books and I'm looking forward to reading this one." At school, her best friend starts to drift away and moody Martha starts a fight with Ella after a lot of nasty talk about Ella's mum. Ella though soon makes friends with Joseph and Toby whom are in her class, all the teachers are nice to her as well. I thought this book was amazing! It's emotional, then funny and then sad! I thought it was one of Jacqueline Wilson's best EVER books."