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Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures (Junior Library Guild Selection)

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Wow! Just the coolest. Amazing photographs and information on dozens of remarkable ocean creatures. A world-wide survey of ocean life has just been completed. This book describes the survey, tells some of what was learned, and shows photographs of many of the astonishing discoveries. The fish with the see through head will blow you away. It even got my teenage son to look up from video battle and put down the controller for a moment. Children love knowing things adults don't, and this book is full of astonishing animals and facts that are new. The yeti crab will inspire fashion designers; the sea slugs eating orangesicle-colored methane ice changed my perception of what life requires. (Heat, light, something I would recognize as food, ie not frozen poison gas.) I borrowed and read this book 2 months ago and have realized I can't bear not to own it.

This is a great book for older children learning about science or that enjoy the ocean and those creature living thousands of feet underwater. It helps understand and explore the unique living creatures in the ocean. The book explains how these clear pictures are taken using underwater equipment. Great pictures taken thousands of feet under the blue ocean of new and old creatures. Scientists work hard to uncover these creature and the way they live, creatures that very few of us will ever see in real life.

You can pretty much sum up this book in one word... AMAZING! Throughout the entire book, you come across creatures of the sea you may already know, but more importantly creatures that were just recently discovered! The crisp, clean, vivid photos make you feel as if you can reach out and touch these creatures. It's a truly captivating and breath taking book. This book takes you on a real adventure that is based on the real journeys of scientists involved in the Census of Marine Life. This book is jammed packed with information that I never knew before, and some information that's really hard to believe it's so out of this world! Children would love, love, love, this book! Children love to ask questions and learn new things, their minds are like sponges so why not give them information on the latest discovery of new ocean creatures to absorb?! :)

The author of this book was at my daughter's school. It is full of awesome pictures and interesting facts and information. Any book that gets a childs attention is worth it's weight in gold.