Undersea Animals: A Dramatic Dimensional Visit to Strange Underwater Realms - Hardcover

Jane H. Buxton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1426303343 ISBN 13: 9781426303340

Publisher: National Geographic Society, 2008

Synopsis

Examines ocean environment such as: an anemone rides a hermit crab, which looms from its shell, claws waving; goosefish wiggles its lure to entice smaller fish into its umbrella-wide mouth; a coral reef brims with camouflaged creatures; and, a squid speeds through the water like a jet.

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Synopsis:

It is rare to find an interactive book as beautifully illustrated as a picture book. Here we have the pleasure of Jerry Pinkney's lush illustrations enhanced further by the paper engineering of John Strejan and Jim Diaz and a simple text that adds authoritative information to enrich the whole. Each of these 6 interactive spreads allows readers in explore a particular ocean environment and features a complex pop of a paricularly interesting feature animal. An anemone rides a hermit crab, which looms from its shell, claws waving. A goosefish wiggles its lure to entice smaller fish into its umbrella-wide mouth. A coral reef brims with camouflaged creatures. A squid speeds through the water like a jet. Some pops and other interactive features on these complex, beautifully painted, and expertly engineered scenes are obvious at first glance, but others take some time to find. Hints in the text directs kids where to look. This is a book kids will pore over again and again.

About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1426303343
• ISBN 13: 9781426303340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 12
• Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney