Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish - Softcover

George, Twig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761314857 ISBN 13: 9780761314851

Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™, 2000

Synopsis

"Exceptionally handsome photographs light up the pages of this well-designed introduction to jellyfish. A few sentences or fragments, closely tied to the illustrations, appear on each spread. The words underscore the variety of jellyfish in the sea and point out their comparative simplicity, their special features, and their unforgettable beauty. The sometimes impressionistic, informative text begins by helping readers to imagine life as a jellyfish: 'If you were a jellyfish you would have two choices―to go up or to go down. That's it. Two.' An intriguing introduction to the subject."―Booklist

About this title

About the Author:

Twig George was inspired to write Swimming with Sharks after she spent time studying and swimming with sharks in the Bahamas. She is also the author of A Dolphin Named Bob,illustrated by Christine Herman Merrill. She lives in Maryland.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4-Gorgeous full-color underwater photos and a simple, readable text provide a fascinating introduction to some little-known and often unheralded marine organisms. Less detailed than Elizabeth Gowell's equally spectacular Sea Jellies (Watts, 1993; o.p.), George's informative narrative presents these gelatinous wanderers as mindless entities mostly at the mercy of tides and currents, opportunistic in their encounters with other marine food sources, and astonishing in their wide variety. For detailed data on reproduction or nematocysts, students will need to consult Gowell's title, but for novices meeting these insubstantial, fluid invertebrates for the first time, this colorful, attractive book will entice and inform.
Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0761314857
• ISBN 13: 9780761314851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32