 First edition cover | |
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | William Heinemann |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 139 |
| ISBN | 0-434-95200-1 |
| OCLC | 20723532 |
Why the Whales Came is a British children's story written by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in 1985 in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, and by Scholastic in the United States. It is set on the island of Bryher, one of the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall, in the year 1914.[1] In 1989, It was adapted into the film When the Whales Came, and in 2001 it was adapted into a stage play.