Baby Dolphin's First Swim

By American Museum of Natural History,

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Meet a baby dolphin and see how he spends his first day! Developed with the American Museum of Natural History, this nonfiction picture book follows a dolphin from birth as he swims with mom; learns to eat, jump, and play with his pod; and even escapes a shark. With its…

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1 author picked Baby Dolphin's First Swim as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Dolphins have been a recent-ish special interest around the house (thank you trip to the National Aquarium over the summer for that one!)

Following that trip, we ended up checking out basically every child-friendly book on Dolphins there was in the local library. Baby Dolphin’s First Swim became a vast favorite from that stack of books.

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