How to Spy on a Shark - Hardcover

Houran, Lori Haskins

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807534021 ISBN 13: 9780807534021

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2015

Synopsis

Spend a day at sea tracking sharks―with the help of a robot! Join a team of marine biologists as they head out in their boat to study mako sharks. Simple, entertaining text and bright, accurate illustrations bring science and technology to life, and additional pages of facts about sharks follow the story. This book is bound to make a splash with young minds!

About this title

About the Authors

Lori Haskins Houran is the author of more than forty books, including Next to You and Space Mice. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.

Francisca Marquez is a Mexican-born illustrator currently living in South Africa. When not painting, Francisca enjoys hiking in the mountains and swimming in the sea. She shares her studio with her cat, Popsicle.

Reviews

PreS-Gr 1—Animal fans will enjoy this simple picture book on the study of sharks. Relying upon concise sentences, Houran explains how marine biologists track mako shark pups by fitting them with tracking devices and using small robots that follow the sharks, recording their movements. The author provides more in-depth information about this process at the end of the book. Children will be drawn in by the soothing, serene illustrations, tinged with deep sea blue, that evoke a peaceful tone not usually associated with these animals. Educators seeking a younger, gentler alternative to Katherine Roy's excellent Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands (Roaring Brook, 2014) should consider this work. Pair Houran's informative and kid-friendly title with Tedd Arnold's Fly Guy Presents: Sharks (Scholastic, 2013) or Gail Gibbons's Sharks (Holiday House, 1992). VERDICT A splendid bridge for introducing very young readers to expository texts, and a useful addition to the 590s.—Martha Rico, El Paso ISD, TX

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How to Spy on a Shark

By Lori Haskins Houran, Francisca Marques

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2015 Lori Haskins Houran
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8075-3402-1

CHAPTER 1

Take a boat ride out to sea until you spy a fin.

Get all set to get all wet and splash! go diving in.

Glide beside a mako shark.

Spot a mako pup.

Call out to the crew to grab a net and scoop it up!

Grip the pup and flip it over.

Tag it. Let it go.

Drop a robot in the sea To follow it below!

The mako twists! The robot turns! They dart and dip and dive.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807534021
• ISBN 13: 9780807534021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Marquez Francisca
• Number of pages: 24