Children’s / Teenage general interest: Fish and marine life
DK DK Super Readers Level 1 Explore the Coral Reef
Book SynopsisHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about a beautiful coral reef and the sea creatures living there with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress.DK Super Readers Level 1: Explore the Coral Reef will introduce kids to a parade of sea creatures that can be spotted on a coral reef – including exotic fish, sea turtles, sea horses, starfish, sharks, dolphins, and more – and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world of reading. DK Super Readers take children on a journey through the wonderful world of nonfiction: traveling back to the time of dinosaurs, learning more about animals, exploring natural wonders and more, all while developing vital nonfiction reading skills and progressing from first words to reading confidently. The DK Super Readers series can help your child prac
£5.90
DK DK Super Readers Level 3 Giant Squid
Book SynopsisJoin the giant squid down in the deep sea! Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about giant squid - what they eat, how they reproduce and their extraordinary three-part bodies - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Giant Squid is a beautifully designed reader all about giant squid - find out why people used to believe they were sea monsters, and what we know about them today.The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the giant squid, with its tentacles, unusual brain, strong suckers and more!
£12.74
DK DK Super Readers Level 3 Giant Squid
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£5.90
DK DK Super Readers Level 1 Life of a Baby Lemon
Book SynopsisJoin the baby lemon shark growing up at sea! Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the life of a baby lemon shark - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Life Of A Baby Lemon Shark is a beautifully designed reader all about the life of a baby lemon shark, its ocean habitat, its appearance and how it hunts for food.The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about a baby shark as it grows and learns to keep safe, hide and hunt.
£12.74
DK DK Super Readers Level 1 Life of a Baby Lemon
Book SynopsisJoin the baby lemon shark growing up at sea! Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about the life of a baby lemon shark - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Life Of A Baby Lemon Shark is a beautifully designed reader all about the life of a baby lemon shark, its ocean habitat, its appearance and how it hunts for food.The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about a baby shark as it grows and learns to keep safe, hide and hunt.
£5.90
DK DK Super Readers Level 2 Great White Sharks
Book SynopsisJoin these powerful predators in their ocean home. Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about great white sharks - their environment, their special senses and powers, and their prey - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Great White Sharks is a beautifully designed reader all about sharks. We might be scared of their special senses, sharp teeth, and super-speed swimming, but humans are a risk to sharks too. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile’s so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the life of this powerful predator, bringing up shark pups, how sharks hunt, and their super senses.
£12.74
DK DK Super Readers Level 2 Great White Sharks
Book SynopsisJoin these powerful predators in their ocean home. Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about great white sharks - their environment, their special senses and powers, and their prey - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Great White Sharks is a beautifully designed reader all about sharks. We might be scared of their special senses, sharp teeth, and super-speed swimming, but humans are a risk to sharks too. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile’s so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about the life of this powerful predator, bringing up shark pups, how sharks hunt, and their super senses.
£5.90
DK Owl and Otter and the Big Yard Sale
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£11.04
Pan Macmillan Escape Room Puzzles Ocean Reef Raiders
Book SynopsisAre you smart enough to help Ethan, Kiran, Cassia and Zane rescue the missing sea creatures in this underwater adventure?Escape Room Puzzles: Ocean Reef Raiders is packed with all kinds of puzzles, including fiendish mazes, cunning logic problems, codes to crack, tricky memory challenges, and much more. You are visiting an underwater science base when you learn about rare sea creatures that have mysteriously disappeared. To escape the base and track down the missing animals, you will need every ounce of brainpower to progress through the challenges, navigating through five locations to the final exit. Throughout the book, nuggets of non-fiction information about the ocean are scattered on the pages.Do you have what it takes to help the gang carry out their mission? It's time to find out . . .Help the team complete further quests with the Escape Room Puzzle series! The adventures include Attack of the Mega Bugs, Eco Dome Disaster, Space St
£7.59
Pan Macmillan I Wonder Why the Sea is Salty
Book SynopsisThe bestselling I Wonder Why series has the answers to all the questions you’ve ever wanted to ask about the natural world, history, space, and more!Which bird flies underwater? Is the Red Sea really red? How deep is the ocean? Learn the answers to these questions and more in I Wonder Why: The Sea is Salty, a fascinating question-and-answer book all about seas and oceans. Award-winning children's author Anita Ganeri makes learning about the natural world fun with her accessible and entertaining style, and information is presented in bite-sized nuggets, making it ideal for dipping in and out.Bright illustrations by Gareth Lucas bring the seas and oceans to life, from sharks and dolphins to pirate ships and underwater volcanoes. Dive in and discover strange underwater creatures beyond your imagination, and fascinating facts about our relationship with this watery world.
£7.59
Kingfisher Life Cycles River
Book SynopsisDiscover which creatures are at the top and bottom of three river food chains, and learn what happens at each stage of their life cycle. At the end of each spread, use the picture clue to guess which river predator is waiting to pounce! Explore the rivers of North and South America, and Europe to find out which creatures live there. . . and which will make a tasty snack!Each book in this essential series reveals the life cycles of ten fascinating living things in a particular habitat. The life cycles link together to create three food chains. At the end of the book is a simple overview of how the three food chains interact to create a food web. With clear text and punchy photographs, this is a captivating introduction to habitats and ecosystems.
£7.59
Pan Macmillan A Coral Reef Story
Book SynopsisThis is a coral reef. A living, limestone necklace beneath the seamulti-colored, ever-changing, and full of animals. A Coral Reef Story brings together a spellbinding narrative, breathtaking illustrations, and fascinating facts about the astonishing creatures that live in one of our planet's most precious environments. Traveling through the seasons over the course of one year, we meet great white sharks, bright parrotfish, graceful green turtles, and many more amazing animals as they hunt for food and play. See the stripy clown fish fiercely guarding his babies, the eel spitting out a spiky porcupinefish, and a queue of hermit crabs jostling to jump into their new shells.Lyrical text by Jane Burnard combines with Kendra Binney''s evocative illustrations to show readers the magical beauty of the coral reef. A Coral Reef Story is an essential purchase for both school libraries and the home, sure to inspire wonder in the natural world and to stimula
£14.39
DK Sticker Encyclopedia Ocean DK Sticker
Book SynopsisSticker Encyclopedia: Ocean includes stickers and fascinating information about everything under the sea, from dolphins and whales to shells and sea anemone. More than just sticker books, DK's Sticker Encyclopedia series features a wealth of facts and jaw-dropping statistics.
£11.69
Amazon Publishing Octopus Soup
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In the opening panels of this wordless picture book, an octopus emerges from his home, pulling a small walrus in a red wagon. He climbs up a rope dropped by a hippopotamus fisherman and is caught, and from there his adventures take off in a series of three-to-four boxed illustrations per page. Young children will giggle as he wiggles his way through busy cobblestone streets, evading a hippopotamus city worker’s broom and the clutches of a walrus chef and a rat waiter in a tux. The artist’s signature cartoons are colorful, whimsical, and entertaining. Mayer continues to enchant a new generation of readers.” —School Library Journal
£12.34
Running Press,U.S. Hidden Treasure
Book SynopsisA stunning story about a girl who notices all the treasures around her.
£13.29
Running Press,U.S. Maps of the Worlds Oceans
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated, fact-filled atlas-a follow-up to Maps of the World-allows children to discover the fascinating and mysterious world below sea level. Covering every ocean and major sea in the world, MAPS OF THE WORLD''S OCEANS is a vibrant and comprehensive atlas that children of all ages will love to explore. The dozens of colourful, detailed maps are filled with hundreds of illustrated icons highlighting creatures that inhabit the waters of the world from deep-ocean sharks to sea birds that rely on the water to survive. Also featured are vital vegetation, submerged shipwrecks and icons representing the myths and legends of the various peoples who supposedly lived by the seas. Along the surface, readers will explore ports, lighthouses, famous explorers and voyages, old navigation secrets and more. Flip the next page from any map and the corresponding icon key explains why these fish, animals, various organisms and more are so vi
£18.00
Candlewick Press,U.S. Manatee Rescue
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£13.59
Candlewick Press,U.S. If You Take Away the Otter
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£15.29
Candlewick Press,U.S. Where Is Little Fish
Book SynopsisPlay hide-and-seek with Lucy Cousins’s Little Fish as the effervescent little guy finds clever cover beneath the flaps.Is that Little Fish hiding behind the yellow coral? No, it’s stripy fish! How about inside the shell? That’s shelly fish, of course! Open up the treasure chest (hi, crab!) and peek behind the red coral (so that’s where curly whirly and twisty twirly went off to!). Children will leave no oyster shell uncracked and no clump of seaweed unexplored in their search for this bright and sprightly new friend from the creator of Maisy.
£7.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Santa Claws
Book SynopsisAn illustrated children''s Christmas story set in theChesapeake Bay,featuring a young blue crab as an unlikely hero Travel beneath the Chesapeake Bay, where Spud, a feisty young blue crab, hates to nap. Waking his underwater friends, Spud launches a rollicking Christmas Eve party that is interrupted by an unexpected traveler in need of Spud's help. Can Spud help bring Christmas to the Bay?
£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Toulouse
Book SynopsisToulouse, the wise old Canada goose from the Chadwick series, stars in his own adventure in this picture book. As a youngster Toulouse wasn't quite so wise, as he freely admits when he tells his nieces and nephews his story one crisp October day. Toulouse had gotten into mischief earlywhen he was just a newly hatched little yellow goslingbut nothing compared with the trouble he found on his first migration to Maryland. Separated from his family, he was left to find his own way south with a lost snow goose named Desdemona, who became his special friend for life. Their love story is one children and grownups alike will treasure.
£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Fish Tank
Book SynopsisExplore with your children a world in the fish tank. With twenty beautiful, bold color illustrations and haiku poetry for text, this book describes life in a tropical fish tank and explores the concept of living together peacefully and happily. Meet goldfish, tetra, tiger barbs, and angelfish. These tropical fish in many shapes, colors, and sizes dwell in a murky aquarium. In their world, they either fight or hide to survive. When a newcomer arrives and cleans the glass tank, the fish see things clearly for the first time. This book, presenting hope for harmony, is a delight for children and adults alike, as together they explore life in the fish tank. Early readerages 5-8.
£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Beyond the River
Book SynopsisThrough this engaging story, you and your children will enter a new world and live an adventure with an unlikely explorer. In a calm little pond, on the banks of a great river, there lived a little fish. There was nothing special about him. In fact he was quite ordinary. But one day he set off up the river in search of an answer only to find so much more. Through this story, your children are encouraged to to realize the potential within themselves. Chasing dreams and exploring life''s questions are great adventures that lead to wonderful and surprising answers. Early readerages 5-8.
£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Meet Chadwick and His Chesapeake Bay Friends
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£10.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sam The Tale of a Chesapeake Bay Rockfish
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Lobsters on the Loose
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£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd How the Oysters Saved the Bay
Book SynopsisThe Chesapeake Bay is a wondrous and exciting place to live. But oysters Chester and Meredith have a big problem: pollution in the waters of the Bay is making the underwater grasses sick. The grasses are home to so many young fish, crabs, and other creatures in the Bay; the disappearance of underwater grasses could lead to the sad loss of even more species. So much is at stake! How can Chester and Meredith possibly figure out a way to save the grasses and also the Bay? See how Chester and Meredith lead their underwater friends to clear up their messy and murky problem. Early readerages 5-8.
£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Olly Explores 7 Wonders of the Chesapeake Bay
Book SynopsisOlly the Oyster is ready for an adventure. So when Mr. Oyster tells him about the wonders of the Chesapeake Bay, he sets off to see them. Following along with Olly, kids will learn about some wonders that fly, like the Great Blue Heron, a symbol of the Bay; some that shine at night, like the Cape Henry Lighthouse; and even a wonder where you can find fossils of crocodile teeththe Calvert Cliffs. As Olly meets and chats with new friends like fiddler crabs, barnacles, and rockfish, he learns about the creatures, people, and places that form the community of the Chesapeake. Olly the Oyster helps the importance of the Bay and its ecosystem come to life. For ages 5 to 8.
£14.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Chadwick And Friends
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChadwick the Crab and his friends (Bernie the Seagull, Hector Spector Jellyfish, Baron von Heron, Toulouse the Canada Goose, and Matilda Egret, to name a few) live in the Chesapeake Bay and share many adventures. Now a lift-the-flap board book for children ages 5 - 6, "Chadwick And Friends" introduces the Bay's most endearing crab and his buddies with fun rhymes and offers flaps that lift that reveal who's who. A colorful and charmingly delightful and thoroughly fun board book that will increase language and identification skills, along with developing small motor skills and hand-eye coordination, "Chadwick And Friends" is very highly recommended for family, preschool, kindergarten, and community library board book collections. -- Midwest Book Review, Children's Bookwatch
£10.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Little Shell and Jittery Jellyfish
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Lobsters on the Loose
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£9.49
Studio Fun International Baby Sharks Big Show The Search for Toothy
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£8.54
Studio Fun International Baby Einstein Music Player Storybook
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£18.69
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co How the Sea Came to Be
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£11.99
Penguin Putnam Inc Walrus in the Bathtub
Book SynopsisA first, worst impression leads to a lasting friendship in this hilarious picture book romp from the author of the New York Times bestselling Cat series and The Quiet Book.Things you'd expect to find in the bathtub:1. Soap bubbles 2. Rubber duckies 3. ShampooThings you don't expect to find in the bathtub:1. WALRUSAs it turns out, once a walrus settles in for a nice long soak, it's pretty darn hard to get him out. What's a family to do? This silly-sweet story will keep readers giggling as a family tries--and tries again!--to evict their unexpected houseguest... before finally realizing why he's there in the first place.
£15.29
Holiday House Inc Fish Wish
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£7.59
Cornell Maritime Press Inc.,U.S. Chadwick the Crab
Book Synopsisâ Move aside, Babar, Paddington, Pooh-Bear...make room for Chadwick.â â Attraction Chadwick is a happy Chesapeake Bay blue crab who enjoys a wide circle of friendsâ quiet Orville Oyster, Matilda (a fussy, near-sighted egret), Toulouse the French Canada Goose, Bernie the Sea Gull, and especially Esmerelda, the prettiest girl crab in the entire bay. But Chadwick yearns for adventure and decides that more than anything else he wants to be a star at the aquarium in Baltimore. This is the story of how one little crab realizes a very big dream.
£8.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Chadwickâs Wedding
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£8.54
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sam
Book SynopsisSam is a carefree rockfish (also called a striped bass) who loves to eatespecially those yummy morsels people toss to him from the deck of a bayside restaurant. And, just for fun, he even nibbles on the webbed toes of his duck and swan friends while they are eating! One day, after Sam has grown big and fat, he doesn't look where he is going and SMACK! He gets himself stuckreally stuckand it looks like there is no way out. The next thing Sam knows, a fisherman has caught him, and our worry-free friend begins to worry. Picture bookages 0-6.
£9.49
Tilbury House,U.S. Hawksbill Promise
Book SynopsisThere is a deserted bay on a small island off Antigua where hawksbill turtles crawl ashore at night during the mating season to lay their eggs. Two months later the hatchlingseach weighing less than an ounceemerge from the sand and scramble to the sea in the moonlight. Only a lucky few survive.Trade Review"5 stars! Hawksbill Promise: A Sea Turtle’s Journey is a good story for any age of reader who enjoys the islands because chances are that they also love turtles. There is a lot to be learned from this story, and the added information included at the end of the book was a definite bonus. Read Hawksbill Promise: A Sea Turtle’s Journey, and you will learn a lot about the journey of this special sea creature." -- Ania - Age 8 - Kids' Book Buzz"" 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List"" -- NTCE" 5 Stars! Anything you didn’t like about it? Nothing. To whom would you recommend this book? Perfect for children between the ages of four and eight. Who should buy this book? Public and school libraries, preschools, daycare centers, anyone who works with children between the ages of four and eight. Where would you shelve it? Beginner nonfiction books Should we (librarians/readers) put this on the top of our “to read” piles? Yes " -- Kristin Guay, former youth librarian - Youth Services Book Review
£13.29
Tilbury House,U.S. Dont Mess with Me
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Striking photographs and informative text introduce venomous ocean-dwellers…fast facts about the 28 different species described in this tempting title…Most spreads include a boxed text headed "How Nature Works," which may describe open scientific questions, settled theories, or applications. Erickson doesn't pander to his readers: He uses appropriate terminology. Martinez's clearly captioned photographs show the creatures in their habitats; there are also diagrams and microscope images. Colorful pages and varied design add interest. Though the text in this entry in an admirable series may be challenging for young readers, the subject has guaranteed kid appeal. (timeline, further resources, glossary)" -- Kirkus Reviews"An eye-catching and pleasingly gross introduction to venomous sea creatures, with extremely helpful back matter." -- Sheri Reda, Wilmette Public Library, IL - School Library Journal"I like that the author explains the difference between poisonous and venomous sea creatures. I also like that they point out that some are invasive species, so you don't want them in your aquarium or released into the sea. I recommend this non-fiction book for classroom libraries, school libraries, and public libraries everywhere." -- Chat with Vera
£13.29
Tilbury House,U.S. Dont Mess with Me
Book SynopsisThe role of venoms in nature … and in human medicine. Why are toxins so advantageous to their possessors as to evolve over and over again? What is it about watery environments that favors so many venomous creatures? Marine biologist Paul Erickson explore
£10.66
Tilbury House,U.S. Ana and the Sea Star
Book SynopsisThis beautiful picture book celebrates the power of imagination and an appreciation of the natural world.Trade Review"Hogan has in the view of this writer entered the sacred pantheon of books worthy of Caldecott attention with the quietly powerful and sensory Ana and the Sea Star. That Roelfs’s life-affirming story, told with poetic grace was the springboard makes the completed work all that more distinguished....There is an acute literary kinship between McCloskey’s unforgettable sensory immersion and Ana and the Sea Star, a work that similarly places youthful wishes front and center during the most formative years. Young readers are treated to an illustrated glossary featuring the sea creatures encountered in the text along with a four or five sentence engaging description of each. Making the connection of human to animal life is a similar showcasing of Ana, defined as a homo sapiens, a vertebrate like some of the others, but most notably the youngest species of them all and one with the unique power of imagination. " -- Sam Juliano - Wonders in the Dark"When Ana and her papa discover a sea star during their walk on the beach, Ana wants to take it home. Papa helps her understand that the sea star is alive and must go back to the ocean. He then consoles her by painting pictures with words that describe the sea star's home under the sea. When Ana gets home, she tells her mother about the sea star using Papa's technique. Hogan's painterly and realistic illustrations take viewers to the beach and under the sea. Her depictions of the natural world evoke the joy of the sea, the salty air, the sand, and the animals that live in this habitat. Hogan's experience as an island dweller in Maine truly shines. Roelfs's text has a lot going on. It covers respecting the natural world, animals of the sea, and using one's imagination through much description and dialogue. The illustrations work well at grounding and depicting the abundant text. There is back matter that provides further description and facts about the animals mentioned in the story, including Ana. VERDICT This gentle story and lovely artwork touch on sea animals, using one's imagination, and respecting nature. An informative and delightful addition. " -- School Library Journal
£10.66
Tilbury House,U.S. Life Under Ice 2nd edition Exploring Antarctic
Book SynopsisThe organisms that live year-round under the ice of the Antarctic Ocean are truly amazing.
£8.24
Tilbury House,U.S. The Secret Stream
Book SynopsisIn this nonfiction picture book, a stream narrates its own natural history as it flows from its headwaters in the mountains to its mouth in the lowlands, introducing the plants and animals that line its banks and live in its waters.Trade Review" Follow a headwater stream from its start as a spring in the forest on its journey to becoming a river, nourishing life all along its length. The main text, written in the first person from the point of view of the stream itself, sticks to the top or left of each spread, introducing major ideas: how insect larvae and nymphs recycle leaves; kingfishers; beaver dams, etc. Further information on, for instance, aquatic insect metamorphosis or otters’ transparent eyelids, is found underneath headings in a slightly smaller font. As the water flows downstream, children read about riffles, how aquatic insects must anchor themselves or be washed down to be a trout’s meal, the importance of trees along the stream’s banks, and the animals that find food or shelter near the water. Most but not all animal species are labeled in the illustrations, which are mostly realistic looking and come to life with masterful use of shading and sunbeams. The text alternates between rhyming and not, which can be distracting. Endpages are two halves of a map showing the course of the stream and the many sights pointed out in the text. Young naturalists will be heading to the nearest stream to explore. " -- Kirkus"Narrated in intermittent rhymes and using onomatopoeia, this educational picture book traces a headwater stream from its origins in the falling rain; its waters burble up from the ground and tumble over rocks. The illustrations are soothing, with eye-catching natural features, including flora and insect and animal life: an otter peeps over a rock, and a brook trout scans for insects to gobble. The light breaks through the forest canopy and slices through the stream’s surface, inviting contemplation over the intricacies of nature." -- Michelle Anne Schingler - Foreword Reviews
£13.99
Tilbury House,U.S. Charlottes Bones The Beluga Whale in a Farmers
Book SynopsisTrade Review" Brilliant. Erin Rounds’ writing feels like magic. Use this book as a mentor text to teach showing not telling, imagery, and sentence fluency. It’s also a lovely example of how to make science come to life through a narrative story. " -- Melissa Taylor - Imagination Soup"Extensive back matter provides details about the scientific impact of the discovery, beluga whales and other Ice Age mammals of the Champlain Valley, a glossary, and further resources. A well-researched historical narrative." -- Caroline Davis, Benicia PL - ACLNC BayViews" A substantial introduction to a significant North American fossil." -- Kirkus" 5 Stars Author Erin Rounds has written a lovely, lyrical story of Charlotte’s journey and discovery accompanied by beautiful illustrations in serene colors. In addition, there are six pages of in-depth back matter to give youngsters much more background and information about this extraordinary find. The back matter includes information on other Ice Age creatures that lived in the area, a good glossary, and a list of other resources for further study. This is a winner. " -- Rosi Hollinbeck - Manhattan Book Review
£10.55
Tilbury House,U.S. Good Eating The Short Life of Krill
Book SynopsisTrade Review"When a nonfiction picture book leaves its readers going ‘Wow! That was so cool! I never knew that!’ it ensures that the book is a winner in its own right! And Good Eating does that; it left all of us judges completely sated with the knowledge that this book is educating, engaging, and entertaining. We had absolutely no idea about how interesting the krill is until we read this book that is stuffed with information and fun facts about it (just like the krill stuffing itself with food!) Author Matt Lilley informs us about this little-known ‘keystone species’ of the ocean using a cool and effective second-person point of view that helps us identify with and root for our krill friend, one among a “krillion!” We join an anonymous narrator, who guides our friend, from when it is just an egg through various swim-eat-grow-molt cycles, till ‘phew’, we sigh in relief that our friend has not ended up as food, at least not within the pages of this book! Dan Tavis’s illustrator’s adorable and vibrant illustrations are the perfect accompaniment for both the entertainment and educative elements of the book. Good Eating’s balance of humor, science, and even a bit of the macabre makes it a funny, adventurous, and great nonfiction treat for all its readers (young and old)." -- Cybils Award 2022"[Good Eating] follows the ever-popular (to predators, anyway) Antarctic krill from blobby egg to shrimplike maturity, where they are surrounded by “krillions” of fellow crustaceans and not a few hungry-looking seals, penguins, whales, and fish. Lilley makes jocular observations (“You look kind of buggy, but you’re not a bug. / You look kind of shrimpy, but you’re not a shrimp.”) and comments on successive growth stages, bioluminescence, and this keystone species’ role in the Southern Ocean’s food chain." -- John Peters - Booklist"And just in case you're wondering how many millions and millions of krill there are in the world... Author Matt Lilley says there are a KRILLION!...The back matter, which includes more wonderful illustrations, explains the life cycle of krill and how these tiny creatures are the "keystone species of the Southern Ocean." The author discusses how krill move and can even "molt and bolt"--shedding their skin when a predator is near--and swim away!" -- Carol Baldwin - Carol Baldwin's Blog"My true appreciation of a work of nonfiction for younger readers never burns brighter than when I am able to take a book, look it right in the eye, and say, “GAAAAHHH! NATURE IS SO WEIRD!!!” And friends, I am delighted to say that this little book by Lilley and Tavis, gave me that warm panicked feeling in my belly I always strive to find. Yes, this is a book about krill. If you’re an adult, like me, then you may know roundabout two facts about krill: 1. They are important to the oceans from an environmental standpoint and 2. Whales eat them by the truckload but they’re small. Therein begins and ends what I knew about the little buggers. That is also why I found GOOD EATING to be so delightful. Because Matt Lilley does not begin where you might expect him to. He starts with a shot of a single, solitary egg. “Hey, egg. What are you doing? Are you sinking?” Painted a luminous golden brown against a sea of black, the egg sinks down, more than a mile. Yet when it hatches it’s still spherical. To my delight, your average krill is a far stranger story of metamorphosis than anything our butterflies can come up with. Constantly grown and shedding and grown and shedding (and not, for quite some time, eating) krill are shapeshifters. Even when they reach their final state, they’re still shedding armor. This deep dive into the microcosm of their lives is as elucidating as it is mesmerizing. You’ll never think about them the same way again." -- Elizabeth Bird - SLJ - A Fuse 8 Production"While I had a vague sense about what krill were, I hadn't really thought about what an important part they play in the ecosystem. Lilley starts from the beginning of a krill's life cycle and follows as one small egg sinks to the bottom of the ocean, starts to develop, and goes through the various stages to become a small ocean creature. Krill eats a LOT, and we see how krill turn green when they eat a lot of plant material. They continue to grow and eat even more and come into contact with a variety of ocean creatures. Of course, it soon becomes apparent that krill are going to be eaten themselves, but the particular one we are following manages to escape the whale at the end and can keep up his gobbling ways for a little while longer. There is a lot of humor to go along with the scientific language; we see what krill look like during the phases of their development, and the names are those phases appear in the corner of the pages complete with pronunciation. This makes it great for a classroom read aloud, because the text addresses one krill as "you" and makes the tiny, anonymous animals seem sympathetic. We follow our krill and root for its growth, but also hope that our krill won't end up as someone else's dinner... at least not too soon! The illustrations are very detailed and give a good sense for the changes the animals go through, and also what the environment in which it lives is like. Since a lot of the krill's life is spent underwater, many of the pages have backgrounds in dark colors, with text in white or beige. The illustrations make good use of the entire spread, with some fun borders showing sea vegetation or other details. It's good to see more informational text for young readers, especially when they have fantastic end papers-- this one has two solid pages of tiny krill that made me think that maybe one of them was wearing a striped shirt like Waldo!" -- Karen Yingling - YA Book Central
£15.61
Tilbury House,U.S. Keepers of the Reef
Book SynopsisTakes children to the underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef for a prime example of how a complex ecosystem depends on its keystone species.Trade Review"When children discover the wonders of the natural world, they become fascinated and curious, and this often sparks a life-long appreciation for the environment. This book offers young readers a glimpse into the delicate balance between corals, algae, and the reef fishes that together make up these important ecosystems. A journey of discovery that will educate and inspire a connection with our oceans and the magic of coral reefs." -- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace"Keepers of the Reef invites kids to look beyond the pretty colors, revealing fascinating fish behaviors that are key to the survival of coral reefs. A delightful perspective on life in this beautiful yet fragile marine habitat." -- Dr. David Bellwood, reef fish expert and Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology at James Cook University"Coral reefs are places of wonder and excitement that stir kids’ imaginations and create curiosity that lasts a lifetime. Keepers of the Reef nurtures that curiosity. It will encourage the children of today to become the stewards of tomorrow." -- Dr. Charlie Veron, global coral expert, conservationist, and the “Godfather of Coral”
£15.33
