Something about Abigale
The director of the movie Something About Mary has a new book aimed at kids. Peter Farrelly has written Abigale the Happy Whale (Megan Tingley/Little, Brown, $15.99), which is aimed at children ages 3 to 6.
At first, ignorance is bliss for Abigale, the humpback whale. She doesn’t realize that all the pollution in the ocean is on the verge of destroying her home.
When it does dawn on her that something is amiss, she doesn’t take it like a beached whale. Abigale persuades her sea-dwelling pals to help her “return” the trash to all the people on the beach. That sparks a clean-the-beach drive.
Mr. Farrelly, also the writer and director behind films Dumb and Dumber and Fever Pitch, is donating 50 percent of the proceeds from the book to Heal the Bay, an organization dedicated to cleaning up the coastal waters in Southern California.
The Associated Press