So says Scotty to Captain Kirk (ever my Captain) when they rescue the whales in the best Star Trek movie, Star Trek IV.

All of us at WLCB love these gorgeous creatures, and so Laurina and I rented the movie Big Miracle recently…it’s based on a true story of some whales who were trapped in the ice in Alaska and subsequently rescued. All through the movie, something kept ringing a bell, so afterward I prowled the bookshelves and found Pipaluk and the Whales, a picture book by John Himmelman that also tells the story. It’s wonderful!

Shelved nearby, because that’s how it works here in the WLCB library, was the marvelous, marvelous picture book The Whales, written and illustrated by Cynthia Rylant (and I ask you, is it FAIR that she can write like she writes and ALSO make beautiful pictures?) Here’s the best line:
“Like angels appearing in the sky,
whales are proof of God.”

As usual, Cynthia said what we wanted to say, only better.

It doesn’t seem like either of these books are in print now, so try to find them in the library…