Fearsome and fascinating, sharks have an enduring appeal for kids. With this imaginative three-dimensional model-in-a-book kit, the great white can be easily built, deconstructed, and rebuilt layer by layer until each of its elements — cartilage, dentition, fins, gills, and then cardiopulmonary, digestive, and acute sensory systems — is understood. Included are discussions on interesting topics like shark fin soup, shark liver oil, and shark populations. With Uncover a Shark, kids can get up close and personal with a great white without getting bitten!
David George Gordon is the award-wining author of 19 books on topics that range from watching gray whales and bald eagles to appreciating cockroaches, coral reef fishes and geoduck clams. The New York Times called his Field Guide to the Slug "gripping," citing its "almost breathtaking" account" of snail sex.
"From the get-go, 'The Secret World of Slugs and Snails' is a charmer, and one you won't have to slog through...David George Gordon, a naturalist and author of 19 books, including the best-selling "Eat-a-Bug Cookbook," knows how to spin a yarn," said the Chicago Tribune.
"Combining clever wit with solid science, David George Gordon has produced a most engaging, enlightening, and entertaining treatise on the evolution, anatomy and physiology, and ecological place of snails and slugs," added the editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine.
The freewheeling naturalist has been featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not, National Geographic Kids, The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. He's been a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, ABC's Nightline and The View. As a bug chef, he has performed at the Smithsonian Institution, Yale University and Singapore's Food Fest.
Gordon lives in Seattle with his wife (and illustrator) Karen Luke Fildes and a tank full of tropical fish.
