Welcome Home, Whales

• Showcases a child having agency in making change;
• expresses a complex subject matter with a gentle, approachable story, not avoiding the facts but ending with hope and optimism;
• includes a concise and eloquent description of what our young generations are grappling with today;
• uniquely combines social emotional learning with science and environment themes;
• winner of the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature;
• 1 percent of all sales of this book will go to whale conservation through a partnership with Defenders of Wildlife, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting diverse wildlife populations in North America;
• offers opportunities for discussions about whale conservation and protection;
• Lexile: 510L, GRL-S; has connections to academic standards, including Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards;
• interest level: kindergarten to grade 4;
• includes an online teacher's guide;
• printed on FSC-certified paper with soy inks

Christina Booth trained as a teacher and painter and is an award-winning Australian author and illustrator of over twenty books.