Extensive, detailed report on seal hunting, supplying of seal hunters, number of skins exported, etc. from the Pribilof Islands. Includes counts of seals, reports on condition of the herds.

Puffin Chapter Books.

Describes the cyclical visitations of elephant seals to Ano Nuevo Island in the Pacific Ocean and relates the experiences of a male pup from birth to early adulthood.

Pru Stanley wants her teacher, Miss Sparling, to like Seal Island so much that she'll stay forever. Until now, every teacher has left. "It's lonely here, " they say. "So far away and so few people." Pru sees plenty of excitement on the island -- finding a letter in a bottle, getting a spectacular new pet, and starting a new job -- how could anyone be lonely? But it's almost the end of the year. Can Pru and her friend Nicholas come up with a plan to keep Miss Sparling from leaving?

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

On Seal Island off the coast of Maine, a place aswarm with pets of all kinds, nine-year-old Pru plans to keep her teacher from leaving by finding her a dog.