The Ultimate Shark Field Guide: The Ocean Explorer's Handbook (Ultimate Field Guides)

If you’ve ever been fascinated by sharks, this immersive field guide brings you closer than ever—no diving or cage required.

Grab your field journal and dive beneath the waves. The Ultimate Shark Field Guide lets young explorers discover the world's most incredible sharks through the eyes of a marine biologist.

Designed to feel like a scientist's personal notebook, this beautifully illustrated guide is filled with detailed observations, watercolor artwork, fascinating facts, and species profiles that bring the underwater world to life.

Inside you'll discover:

• More than 50 incredible shark species from around the globe
• Field notes covering appearance, habitat, diet, size, and behavior
• Stunning hand-painted watercolor illustrations by Julius Csotonyi
• Amazing facts about great whites, whale sharks, hammerheads, bull sharks, tiger sharks, and many more
• An immersive field guide experience that encourages curiosity and scientific discovery

Whether they're fascinated by ocean animals, dreaming of becoming a marine biologist, or simply can't get enough shark facts, young readers will return to this beautiful guide again and again.

A perfect gift for shark lovers, nature enthusiasts, STEM learners, homeschool families, and curious kids ages 8-12.

Dr. Julius Csotonyi is one of the world's most high-profile and talented contemporary scientific illustrators. His considerable academic expertise informs his stunning, dynamic art. He has created life-sized dinosaur murals for the Royal Ontario Museum and for the?Children's Museum of Indianapolis, as well as most of the artwork for the exhibit "Deep Time" in the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He lives in Canada. His books include?Dinosaur World; Discovering Reptiles;?Discovering Sharks;?Discovering Bugs;?Discovering Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises;?Discovering Tigers, Lions, & Other Big Cats;?The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi;?Prehistoric Predators; Dino World; Shark World; and Bug World.