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Animal Ark [GB Order] #31
Dolphin in the Deep
Mandy has been spending a lot of time in Florida at the local animal park playing with Bob and Bing, two dolphins who perform together, but when Bob dies, Mandy is concerned about Bing's future and is determined to do whatever she can to help the lonely dolphin.Mandy has been spending a lot of time in Florida at the local animal park playing with Bob and Bing, two dolphins who perform together, but when Bob dies, Mandy is concerned about Bing's future and is determined to do whatever she can to help the lonely dolphin.
144 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2001
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Lucy Daniels
315books112followersLucy Daniels is the collective name for the writing team that created the bestselling children's book series Animal Ark, many of the books are also published under the name of the series creator, Ben M. Baglio.
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April 7, 2022
I loved it too. It was sad though.
August 3, 2013
Recently I've been rediscovering books that I read when I was younger. And the Animal Ark series is one of them. Mandy's parents are veterinarians and animal-lovers, so she spends a lot of time with animals. She and her best friend James rescue lots of stray dogs and cats, as well as helping some wild animals. This is one occasion where she helps out animals outside of her parents' veterinary center. Bob and Bing are two dolphins at an animal park and they are practically best friends. But when Bob dies, it is up to Mandy and a new friend named Joel to help Bing get through this new-found depression. Speaking for all the books in the series I've read, it is pretty good and I really like how the author is teaching readers through his books to respect animals. Awesome message. But for the books themselves, I would only rate it three stars. Even though it's a series, you can read the books out of order and everything would still make sense. Each book is sort of a stand-alone adventure, but sometimes events from a previous book might be mentioned. Overall, fairly decent book and since I loved these books when I was in third grade and they carry childhood memories, I give it three stars and not two.
June 23, 2017
This well-written book for young readers raises some serious animal welfare issues on a holiday in Florida. When I read this it was written by Lucy Daniels, which I have to take is a pen name as all other details are the same.
Mandy Hope loves dolphins and while in Florida she visits a dolphinarium. The owner just cares about the money visitors pay to watch the dolphin show but Bob and Bing, the stars, are real live animals. Bob becomes ill and gets good vet care but sadly he dies. After that Bing is depressed and lonely.
Rather than forget about it, Mandy wonders if she could return Bing to the open ocean. This would be theft, and would require a lot of help and vehicles, but if it worked Bing would be happy amid his own kind once more.
Some of the tale is sad but it is also inspirational and shows how caring people can work things out between them for the best.
Mandy Hope loves dolphins and while in Florida she visits a dolphinarium. The owner just cares about the money visitors pay to watch the dolphin show but Bob and Bing, the stars, are real live animals. Bob becomes ill and gets good vet care but sadly he dies. After that Bing is depressed and lonely.
Rather than forget about it, Mandy wonders if she could return Bing to the open ocean. This would be theft, and would require a lot of help and vehicles, but if it worked Bing would be happy amid his own kind once more.
Some of the tale is sad but it is also inspirational and shows how caring people can work things out between them for the best.
August 27, 2014
I loved the Animal Ark series when I was younger and recently decided to reread some of my favourite ones. At the top of the list is Doplphin in the Deep.
I just loved the characters and their determination to set Bing free. It is admirable - even now I am an adult, if not more so. Such novels as those in the Animal Ark series teaches children to treat animals as if they are humans and to love them as if they were.
A lovable book to be read by animal lovers everywhere.
I just loved the characters and their determination to set Bing free. It is admirable - even now I am an adult, if not more so. Such novels as those in the Animal Ark series teaches children to treat animals as if they are humans and to love them as if they were.
A lovable book to be read by animal lovers everywhere.
January 9, 2021
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This one does a good job of tackling animal cruelty in the context of making animals work to make money for humans. Basically, it’s telling kids the dangers of places like Sea World, and how often the animals are over worked and not kept in fair conditions to their wild nature. Solid story and great lessons in here for kids.
As an aside: Mr. Boston would have the people arrested for what they did at the end of the book. The ending was wildly unrealistic.
This one does a good job of tackling animal cruelty in the context of making animals work to make money for humans. Basically, it’s telling kids the dangers of places like Sea World, and how often the animals are over worked and not kept in fair conditions to their wild nature. Solid story and great lessons in here for kids.
As an aside: Mr. Boston would have the people arrested for what they did at the end of the book. The ending was wildly unrealistic.
January 12, 2008
In second grade, I adored Animal Ark. Every time I took a trip to Rhode Island, I would get three of these as presents.
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July 24, 2024This is a review of the UK edition. I'm not not sure why I bothered to get the UK edition, since the story is set in Florida.
The real author is Jenny Oldfield, who wrote the first Animal Ark books. If you ever want to know who really wrote an Animal Ark book, or one of the Animal Ark spin-offs, just look to see who "special thanks" is given on or just after the copyright page.
I haven't read all of the Animal Ark books, but I have read enough to start thinking of which one was the worst. I'm not counting the Animal Ark Hauntings series, since that was set up to be laughably bad. But the Animal Ark books had one foot in the real world. This is a book that is so bad, it's reprehensible.
This was first published in 1998. Five years previously, the hit film Free Willy got many people thinking that all of the orcas and dolphins in captivity should be released back into the oceans.
Well, they did release the orca that played Willy back into the ocean. He fucking died, alone, in 2003.
That damn movie wound up doing more harm than good. Any captive bred dolphin like Bing just dumped into the Atlantic would've died from the sudden change in water or, if he somehow miraculously managed to survive the shock, then he would've died of starvation, since he had no clue how to hunt for food. Dolphins are not born knowing this stuff. They have to be taught.
So well done, Mandy. You just killed the very dolphin you were trying to save.
And as to the death of Bob -- what the holy FUCK was going on there? Trying to hold the dolphin up. ARE.
YOU.
KIDDING.
ME.
No stars for this crap.
The real author is Jenny Oldfield, who wrote the first Animal Ark books. If you ever want to know who really wrote an Animal Ark book, or one of the Animal Ark spin-offs, just look to see who "special thanks" is given on or just after the copyright page.
I haven't read all of the Animal Ark books, but I have read enough to start thinking of which one was the worst. I'm not counting the Animal Ark Hauntings series, since that was set up to be laughably bad. But the Animal Ark books had one foot in the real world. This is a book that is so bad, it's reprehensible.
This was first published in 1998. Five years previously, the hit film Free Willy got many people thinking that all of the orcas and dolphins in captivity should be released back into the oceans.
Well, they did release the orca that played Willy back into the ocean. He fucking died, alone, in 2003.
That damn movie wound up doing more harm than good. Any captive bred dolphin like Bing just dumped into the Atlantic would've died from the sudden change in water or, if he somehow miraculously managed to survive the shock, then he would've died of starvation, since he had no clue how to hunt for food. Dolphins are not born knowing this stuff. They have to be taught.
So well done, Mandy. You just killed the very dolphin you were trying to save.
And as to the death of Bob -- what the holy FUCK was going on there? Trying to hold the dolphin up. ARE.
YOU.
KIDDING.
ME.
No stars for this crap.
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August 9, 2021
Rereading a childhood favourite!
September 12, 2022
Great book series for children/teenagers! decided to read a few of them again last week and was pleasantly surprised.
September 15, 2022
It was super sad but also happy.
December 5, 2022
Re reading my childhood favourite!
May 5, 2023
Dolphin 🐬 in the Deep was a really cool and sweet animal book bit sad but Enjoyable
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August 7, 2023Saw these books at goodwill and just remembered I read a bunch of them as a kid
April 3, 2024
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🌟 4.0
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𝗰𝘄𝘀� peril, animal abuse, bereavement (a dolphin)
🌟 4.0
11+
𝗰𝘄𝘀� peril, animal abuse, bereavement (a dolphin)
May 11, 2016
Bing and Bob are best friends. They are dolphins. But when Bob gets sick and dies, Bing gets really miserable. Mandy wants to release him into the ocean so he won't be lonely. Can Mandy get Bing out of the aquarium and into the wild?
I really like this book. You have got to read it. It is amazing! This book is a really good book, and it is really interesting.
I really like this book. You have got to read it. It is amazing! This book is a really good book, and it is really interesting.
December 13, 2009
animal ark series
May 23, 2010
I didn't, at the time, like reading and could not make it past page 5. However , given the oppertunity, I will indevore to read this book.
November 9, 2012
While in Florida, Mandy plays with two dolphins but when one of them dies, the other becomes depressed.
February 10, 2011
I loved this whole series as a kid, but i think this one just edged top spot :)
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March 2, 2016I really enjoyed this whole series as a child. Back then I'd devour each of the books as soon as I could get my hands on them.
July 25, 2011
One of my first books of the animal ark series. One of the best of the series as well.
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July 30, 2011oh the memories! :) I loved this book! :)
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August 7, 2011I was completely obsessed with this series of books when I was a child and my aim was to read every single book. They are a really good children's series.
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February 7, 2013I did not enjoy the book because it was a bit too complicated. I got to the 8th page and stopped.
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December 28, 2015Loved this series when I was younger. Still a huge animal lover and would like to read the rest of this series!
March 6, 2014
It's such a heartwarming story. If you love animals you'll love this book. it has adventure and I LOVED it!!
November 20, 2009
good but sad book.
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February 11, 20144W heard this book talk first.
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June 1, 2014J PBK B Animal Ark series
August 31, 2017
Questo deve essere stato uno dei primi libri che abbia letto, nel 2000 a 5 anni, io adoro i delfini, però l'altro giorno quando l'ho preso in mano e ho letto la trama..ho detto..ma l'avevo letto??? Forse me l'avevo letto mia mamma da piccola ma io non mi ricordavo per niente la storia quindi eccomi. Adesso che l'ho letto "consciamente" posso dire che è davvero bellissimo, anche un pò triste, ma si sente l'amore per gli animali fra le righe del libro. I delfini sono davvero delle creature meravigliose.
Sono felice di averlo ri-letto ;)
Sono felice di averlo ri-letto ;)
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