4.0 out of 5 stars
A great overview, April 21, 2009
This review is from: A Sea Full of Sharks (Blue Ribbon Book) (Paperback)
This was a nice introduction to sharks. It covers several different kinds of sharks. It has a nice illustration of the cartilage frame of a shark which really helped the kids understand it better. There is information on feeding, birth and swimming. While we've read a lot about sharks this book had new information and held their attention. The illustrations were well done, but actual pictures would be helpful as well.
There is a reference to "400 million years ago" which, depending on your world view, would need to be edited. This wasn't all "environmental wacky" either. It does say that humans kill sharks and use them for various things, and that sharks sometimes kill people, but both sides are presented fairly and without judgment.
One of the better basic shark books. If you want to go indepth, you'll need to find something else though. My 3rd graders and K kid loved it.
*taken from my review at goodreads
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