Illustrated by David BiedrzyckiCharlesbridge, 2000
$16.99
32 pages
Rating: 4.5
Endpapers: Rusty red
Brendan and I went to the Acadia National Park visitor center yesterday, looked at the huge relief map, watched the movie, and decided to participate in some junior ranger activities this week. We were drawn to this big, colorful book and bought it, stamped it with the National Park passport stamp, and signed the inside cover. So this will be a very special book. We've already read it three times.
Not only does this relate the ocean adventures of a curious boy, it teaches about the food chain....from plankton to shrimp to eels to mackerel to bluefish to killer whales. We see seals, gulls, lots and lots of ocean, and see how imagination and curiousity can create a whale of a tale.
The illustrations and layout of the book are lovely - the picture covers most of the two-page spread -- oh those blues! -- and the font, a large blue type, is on a white vertical strip down the side.
Informative and fun, what more could one want?
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