Ocean - Hardcover

Macquitty, Miranda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679873317 ISBN 13: 9780679873310

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1995

Synopsis

Photographed in full color. Explore the incredible diversity of life in the sea--from the haunting, hour-long songs of humpback whales to the fantastic coral colonies that spawn all their young in a single night.

About this title

About the Author:

Miranda MacQuitty is a zoologist who has written books on many areas of marine life, including the best-selling Eyewitness Ocean.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6-Two-page entries illustrated with bright, full-color photographs introduce the world's oceans. Although the illustrations are sharp and clear, the text sometimes lacks depth, focus, and clarity as the author attempts to include something about almost everything connected to the subject. For example, in the "Waves and Weather" section, an El Ni?o and onshore and offshore breezes are not adequately explained. There are also serious omissions. Jacques Cousteau is never mentioned in "Diverse Divers," nor is Sylvia Earle included in the section on deep dives. Auguste Picard, significant contributor to the design of the deep-diving bathyscaphe, is omitted from "Ocean Explorers." So many visual images compete for attention on every page that the impact of the dramatic representations is lost. Browsing through these fully packed pages and dipping here and there into the text can be fun, but for entertainment, Joanna Cole's The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor (Scholastic, 1992) presents basic facts in an entertaining narrative. Other fine introductions include Martyn Bramwell's The Oceans (Watts, 1994) and Seymour Simon's Oceans (Morrow, 1990).
Frances E. Millhouser, Chantilly Regional Library, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679873317
• ISBN 13: 9780679873310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 63