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Dolphin SOS

by Roy Miki

Illustrator: Julie Flett

Ages: 6+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Tradewind Books/Orca

ISBN: 978-1-896580-76-0

Keywords: Science, animals

When three dolphins get trapped by ice, a community bands together to save them. Spare, textured illustrations evoke the Newfoundland winter and keep the focus on the stranded mammals.