The Twilight Seas

The Twilight Seas is a novel by Sally Carringhar. The Twilight Seas was first published in 1975, with illustrations by Peter Parnell. It was republished in a Ballantine Books edition in April 1976. The Ballantine Books paperback (with ISBN 0345249526150) is actually marked as non-fiction.

Premise
It is the story of a blue whale from his birth and first breath through his growing up to his death. It is told without dialogue or names, and with natural behaviour of the whales and other animals.