01043cam a2200265 4500 48550385 TxAuBib 20090422120000.0 090519t20042003||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2003004133 9780142405802 0142405809 TxAuBib Donaldson, Julia. The snail and the whale / by Julia Donaldson ; pictures by Axel Scheffler. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2004. ©2003. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 29 cm. Originally published : Great Britian : Macmillan Children's Books, 2003. Wanting to sail beyond its rock, a tiny snail hitches a ride on a big humpback whale and then is able to help the whale when it gets stuck in the sand. 20090422. Snails Fiction. Whales Fiction. Scheffler, Axel.