Monsters of the Deep (Remarkable World) [Library Binding]

Saviour Pirotta (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1995 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Remarkable World

A title from the new QUEST! series which explores the depths of the ocean, combining stories of real-life monsters with the monsters of our imaginations. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, maps and artwork.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-6?It's difficult to discern the boundary between fact and fiction in this series entry. Did a 45-foot turtle really threaten three fishermen off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1956? There's an illustration that seems to confirm the sighting, but the text describing it and many such encounters is peppered with phrases like "...some people...regarded the stories as nonsense." In addition, the incidents are so frightening that anyone who reads the book and sees the lurid illustrations might never go near the water again. Most of the full-color and black-and-white drawings, reproductions, and photographs are fascinating in the way illustrations in medical texts of horrible, disfiguring conditions are?especially the photo of the gaping wounds diver Rodney Fox sustained in a white shark attack, and the one of the scars left after they were stitched closed. Tales of sharks attacking little wooden boats and shipwreck survivors and of saltwater crocodiles storing bodies among "...underwater roots until the flesh rots enough to be easily separated" are incredibly gruesome and portray these predators as forces of evil. This book is so relentless in its sensationalism and so counter to the current view of the necessity of predators in the food chain that its usefulness is doubtful.?Frances E. Millhouser, Chantilly Regional Library, VA
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Library Binding: 47 pages
• Publisher: Thomson Learning (September 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568473672
• ISBN-13: 978-1568473673
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,671,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Saviour Pirotta was born on the island of Malta but emigrated to the UK in his early twenties. He grew up speaking three langauges, English, Maltese and Italian.

Before taking up writing full time, he was a postman, a chef and a storyteller. His retellings of myths, legends and folk tales have been published around the world and translated into twenty three languages to date. He lives in Saltaire, West Yorkshire.