How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again

It’s the true story of Winter who has become an inspiration to people of all ages around the world. Winter’s story delivers an important message of hope, resilience, and universal acceptance.

Winter’s Tail is a compelling journey through Winter’s fight to stay alive, her extensive rehabilitation with a custom-made prosthetic tail and her incredible impact on others. The book uses stunning photography that chronicles Winter’s dramatic rescue and the subsequent heroic efforts and dedication by doctors, staff, engineers, and scientists to help Winter by fitting her with a breakthrough prosthetic tail.


Winter’s Tail is the newest children’s book by #1 New York Times bestselling team behind Owen and Mzee: Craig Hatkoff and his daughters Juliana and Isabella Hatkoff.

This inspiring dolphin book chronicles the amazing true story of Winter, who as a two-month old dolphin lost her tail after becoming entangled in a crab trap. Winter was rescued off the coast of Cape Canaveral and brought to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in December 2005. The book uses stunning sea life pictures and dolphin pictures that chronicle Winter’s dramatic rescue and the subsequent heroic efforts and dedication by doctors, CMA staff, engineers and scientists to help Winter by fitting her with a breakthrough prosthetic tail, designed to be flexible enough for movement and durable enough for swimming. Beyond all expectations, Winter has thrived at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and has become an inspiration to the disabled and able-bodied alike. This dolphin book, full of dolphin pictures delivers an important message of hope, friendship and universal acceptance.

This book marks the fifth installment in the critically-acclaimed Turtle Pond Collection of non-fiction picture books about remarkable animals overcoming adversity, all published by Scholastic. The books by Craig Hatkoff, and his daughters Juliana (14) and Isabella (10), include Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (2006), Owen and Mzee: The Language of Friendship (2007), Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Changed the World (2007), and most recently, Looking for Miza: The True Story of the Mountain Gorilla Family Who Rescued One of Their Own (2008). The book series introduces kids to real world issues and empowers them to effect change on our planet.