Gone Fishing: Ocean Life by the Numbers - Hardcover

McLimans, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802797717 ISBN 13: 9780802797711

Publisher: Walker Childrens, 2008

Synopsis

Dive down to the depths of our planet’s oceans and see the stunning variety of creatures that call this watery environment home. These incredible marine animals and their ocean habitats are among our most precious and endangered resources. 

In a dazzling underwater adventure, Caldecott Honor–winning artist David McLimans uses fins, flippers, and tentacles to create numerical masterpieces. From the smallest tiger tail sea horse to the giant humpback whale, this aquatic menagerie will captivate readers of all ages as they count up to ten and back down again. McLimans also explores the powers of ten to showcase amazing ocean facts from one to one billion! Once you wet your feet with this eye-popping visual treat, your view of the ocean will be forever transformed.  

About this title

About the Author:

David McLimans’s first book, Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, was a Caldecott Honor winner and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. He has won numerous awards for his editorial illustrations, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and Time. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3–5—Using animal-shaped numbers from 1 to 10 and back again, McLimans introduces various marine creatures and their survival status. An African penguin, sea lamprey, tiger tail sea horse, and blue-ringed octopus are among the featured species. The text boxes accompanying each entry are not offset as distinctly as they were in the author's Gone Wild (Walker, 2006), so viewers are not sure where to look first. The boxes include the class to which each marine animal belongs, its habitat, aquatic region, threats, and status ("vulnerable," "endangered," and "critically endangered"), but the terms are not defined. Between the count up and count down is a spread of "Ocean Facts by the Numbers," which presents various statistics in the power of 10. For example, "Less than 1 percent of water on Earth is freshwater," "Plastic waste kills up to 1 million seabirds every year," and "About 1 billion people live in coastal urban centers, and the resulting overdevelopment threatens almost 50 percent of the world's coastal habitats." The black silhouetted numbers are sinuous and compelling in this unique and imaginative description of the dangers facing ocean life today.—Frances E. Millhouser, formerly at Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Childrens
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0802797717
• ISBN 13: 9780802797711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: McLimans David