The Adventures of Billy the Whale shows children, "it's OK to be different or the odd one out." No matter how different you are, you look or you feel, there is always someone out there that will think of you as special to them, and want to be your friend, or want to love you. "It's OK to be special!"

A blue whale is longer than thirty dogs lined up nose to tail. Its tongue weighs as much as four hundred cats. Blue whales make terrible pets....Just ask Billy Twitters.

Billy is a typical boy who loves to ride his bike and play video games. But when Billy tells his family and friends he wants to be a cheerleader, everyone is surprised and tells him boys don't do that. But Billy practices and practices and when he shows his skills at the big game, everyone knows Billy is really good and are proud of him. All because Billy kept after his goal despite the teasing.

‘Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising – the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He’s a one-off, an American treasure’ Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and invites us to his own funeral. Facing both the wonders of being alive and the thrill of mortality, these new poems can only solidify Collins’s reputation as one of America’s most durable and interesting poets.

Now in board book! The story of a boy who discovers a whale in his pool one hot summer day.