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  About the Author

  SIOBHÁN PARKINSON is one of Ireland’s most highly acclaimed writers of books for children. She has won numerous awards and her books have been translated into several languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Danish. Siobhán lives in Dublin with her husband Roger, a woodturner, and their son Matthew, Siobhán’s personal literary critic.

  OTHER BOOKS BY SIOBHÁN PARKINSON

  For younger readers

  Cows are Vegetarians

  Animals Don’t Have Ghosts

  The Leprechaun Who Wished He Wasn’t

  For older readers

  Amelia

  No Peace for Amelia

  Sisters … no way!

  Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (maybe)

  The Moon King

  The Love Bean

  Breaking the Wishbone

  Copyright

  This eBook edition first published 2012 by The O’Brien Press Ltd,

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  First published 2000

  eBook ISBN: 978–1–84717–487–1

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  British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  Parkinson, Siobhan

  Call of the Whales

  1.Artic regions - Juvenile fiction 2.Adventure stories 3.Children's stories

  I.Title

  823.9'14[J]

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  Editing, typesetting, layout and design: The O’Brien Press Ltd