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Sharks! (Animal Planet Chapter Books #1)
Oleh Animal Planet dan Lori Stein
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Animal Planet introduces information-packed nonfiction chapter books that are just right for pleasure reading and schoolwork.Dive inside the world of sharks with this guide to the most incredible creatures in the sea. Photographically illustrated chapters highlight kid-favorite species such as Great Whites and Hammerheads, with a focus on behavior, senses, breeding, and feeding. Sharks! is the perfect overview for developing readers ready to explore this popular animal subject on their own. Special features include full-color photography throughout, "Meet the Scientist" sidebars, and "In Your Newsfeed" articles about amazing new discoveries.Don't miss the other books in the series, including Animal Planet Chapter Books: Dinosaurs!.
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Sharks! (Animal Planet Chapter Books #1)
Oleh Animal Planet dan Lori Stein
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Animal Planet introduces information-packed nonfiction chapter books that are just right for pleasure reading and schoolwork.Dive inside the world of sharks with this guide to the most incredible creatures in the sea. Photographically illustrated chapters highlight kid-favorite species such as Great Whites and Hammerheads, with a focus on behavior, senses, breeding, and feeding. Sharks! is the perfect overview for developing readers ready to explore this popular animal subject on their own. Special features include full-color photography throughout, "Meet the Scientist" sidebars, and "In Your Newsfeed" articles about amazing new discoveries.Don't miss the other books in the series, including Animal Planet Chapter Books: Dinosaurs!.
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***This book was reviewed via Netgalley***Full of colourful pictures, Animal Planet: Sharks! by Lori Stein is a great teaching tool for young kids. Sharks are among the most mysterious, exciting, and oft misunderstood denizens of the deep. There are hundreds of shark species, and not all are what comes to mind when you hear the word 'shark’. The beginning gives an overview of basic shark features, present in all species. Some of these features are a skeleton made of cartilage, rough skin lacking scales, and a mouth full of several rows of teeth.I enjoyed reading this with my cubs. We are definitely going to snag hardcopies of this and the Dinosaurs! book. They enjoyed learning about sharks, and even I learned some fun new facts. I had no idea sharks used electroreception, and can sense the electric fields all creatures have. What would it be like if we humans had that sense? This book was also very good for disabusing the notion that all sharks must be in constant motion. We learned why movement is necessary for survival, and how sharks have learnt, in different ways, to bypass this need, allowing them to settle to the ocean floor. There's even a cave off the coast of Mexico where sharks can be found napping, making it easy to go near, or even touch them.We were all disturbed by the leopard shark study. It says that the experiment didn't hurt the sharks, and maybe that is so, but it still seemed unnecessary and cruel just to satisfy some curiosity. I'm very sensitive to perceived animal mistreatment, and several of the younglings inherited that. We understand about the necessity of tagging animals, but this experiment didn't involve tagging the animals for naturally gathered data. No, it involved shoving cotton balls up their noses.. Nicky and Daily said someone should randomly kidnap the researchers and do the same to them and see how they like it. Heh. Cublings can be so blunt. Learning about the sharks’ teeth, and how they are replaced was fascinating. We pulled out the collection of small shark teeth I had gathered with my grandmother many moons ago, and looked at the different types. I also brought out my other shark teeth- nurse, tiger, great white-, and my pride, a megalodon tooth as big as my hand. I also found a pic my sister took of me standing inside a replica of a megalodon’s jaws. Talk about terrifying!Catsharks were another new thing for me. How did I not know there is a whole class of catsharks? They have neat cat-like eyes, and tend to range on the smaller end of the size scale, with the largest being about 5 ft in length. There's a species of catshark called pajama shark. That's too funny! There are many other species of shark, each as unique as the last.I would have liked to have seen a section on the meg, and other ancient sharks. These beasties have survived in some form or another since the age of the day. Learning about ancient sharks such as megalodon, helicoprion, and edestus woild have been pretty neat. Overall, though, this was a good first look book, and a great addition to any kid’s library.???? Highly recommended, especially for kids who love sharks or sea life, and natural history. Also as an educational tool for middle-graders.
Rating: 5This is a great non-fiction book geared to young readers. The images and illustrations are amazing and give so much information in themselves. There is so much information in this book that youngsters will need to read this in several sittings. From birth, family life, food, hunting, appearances, migration, communication etc. it is all here. The book starts off telling us what all sharks have in common, then promptly tells us about all the many differences. We learn about their amazing senses, why their bodies are so light and why they can move so quickly. No book is complete without information about The Great White Shark. Learning about "Mary Lee" a great white that has been tagged and how the information they gather is used to keep humans safe. You can also go a website to see her being tracked. There are several species discussed in various chapters on different topics. The book shares a section on shark bites and myths about shark attacks. There is also a section called "Why Sharks Matter" dealing with how they help the environment and ecosystem and about how and why they are threatened.
I learned things about sharks that I did not know. I thought they had to keep moving so they could breathe, but found out that they have developed ways that they can actually sleep and still breathe based on currents and moving their muscles or that they have not bones, but are made of cartilage. There are several resources listed at the back of the book for further study.
This is a good book form young readers to learn about sharks. This seems to be a topic that is always of interest to people due to all the television coverage of sharks. I recommend this book to school, classroom and public libraries. This would be a great book for those reluctant readers as it does not seem like you are reading when going through this book.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Rating: 5I learned things about sharks that I did not know. I thought they had to keep moving so they could breathe, but found out that they have developed ways that they can actually sleep and still breathe based on currents and moving their muscles or that they have not bones, but are made of cartilage. There are several resources listed at the back of the book for further study.
This is a good book form young readers to learn about sharks. This seems to be a topic that is always of interest to people due to all the television coverage of sharks. I recommend this book to school, classroom and public libraries. This would be a great book for those reluctant readers as it does not seem like you are reading when going through this book.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Animal Planet Chapter Books: Sharks! by Animal Planet & Lori Stein is a terrific book on sharks that will have even those that fear sharks respecting the fishy fiends enough to know they are needed in the oceans. The book explains what makes a shark a shark, a very good question. This book is also loaded with the best images throughout the pages and full of the greatest trivia on sharks such as sharks can't get viruses or cancers! Can you guess who is the fastest or which is called "garbage gut"? Which is the "couch potato" shark? The book talks about jumping sharks, that's right, jumping sharks, and basking sharks. I guess those are the ones tired from jumping, lol. What do you call a baby shark? It is all in here, fun and exciting facts and it doesn't talk down to you. Great book! I loved the charts that showed the various shark's live spans and body sizes. Then there is a link to follow a tagged shark, Mary Lee, a great white shark, read about her in here too. A very informative book with excellent pictures with many closeups. Wonderful. Thanks NetGalley for suggesting this book.
Rating: 5