Ocean Exploration
Hello Ocean
Dive into this playful poem about the draw of the shore and the effect the ocean has on all five senses.
Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret
From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious.
The Great Bear Sea
Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read take readers on an expedition into the wondrous and mysterious underwater world of the Great Bear Sea. Filled with spectacular images of this largely unknown part of the world, the book also explores the uncertain future of the Great Bear Sea in this age of climate change, overfishing, pipelines and oil tankers.
Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Incredible Journey Home
Lindsay Moore chronicles the remarkable true story of Yoshi, a loggerhead sea turtle who traveled an astounding 25,000 miles after being released from the aquarium that rehabilitated her.
Into the Sea
From the moment it hatches from its shell through its journey across an ocean filled with wonders and dangers to its return to the beach where it was born to lay its own eggs, a female sea turtle’s life is one of survival.
The Most Amazing Creatures in the Sea
Which sea creature is the greatest? Is it the one with the most venom, the greatest diver, the one with blue blood, or the best rotating eyes? Or is it the master of disguise, the one with the best light, the most slime, or the most eggs? Fascinating facts and spectacular illustrations will inspire young readers to choose their own favorite sea creatures!
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them--just thirty miles from the Golden Gate Bridge!
Giant Squid
The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind.
The Deep Sea Floor
Incredibly rich and realistic illustrations take readers up close to the curious creatures and plants that thrive in the vast severe habitat of the ocean's floor.
Big Blue Whale
Equally majestic as the biggest animal that has ever lived — the Big Blue Whale.
How Long is a Whale (Wild Facts and Amazing Math)
Alison Limentani has been shortlisted for the Cambridgeshire Libraries "Read it Again" award. In her second extraordinary picture book - this time with dramatic double page gatefold - she explores numbers, length and fascinating facts. Have you ever wondered how long a whale is? A shark? Or even a dolphin?
Into the Deep: An Exploration of Our Oceans
This book merges breathtaking art with the latest scientific research to take readers on a fantastic voyage on the submarine Marine Snow, where they meet blue whales, vampire squid, viper fish, and a giant sea spider. They'll learn about bioluminescence, Radiolaria, and coral reefs, discovering incredible facts about the marine world.
If You Take Away the Otter
On the Pacific Coast of North America, sea otters play, dive, and hunt for sea urchins, crabs, abalone, and fish in the lush kelp forests beneath the waves. But there was a time when people hunted the otters almost to extinction. Without sea otters to eat them, an army of hungry sea urchins grew and destroyed entire kelp forests.
Super Swimmers
Meet marine mammals-whales, dolphins, sea otters, manatees, and others-and discover how they are specially adapted to life in the water.
The Pier at the End of the World
With lyrical writing and stunning underwater photography, this picture book follows a day in the life of the denizens lurking in the cold, tide-swept waters beneath a remote pier on the shore of a northern sea.
The Octopus Scientists
With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow.
The Lady and the Octopus
Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how of the argonaut octopus gets its shell.
Fabulous Fishes
From the spiky lionfish and the brightly colored clownfish to lanternfishes and hatchetfishes that flash lights so they can find each other in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, this book explores the remarkable breadth of sea life.
Fish Faces
ore than seventy monstrous, beautiful, friendly, and fierce denizens of the deep, including the cat shark and the parrotfish, swim through the full-color photographs of a collection that also features a clear, rhythmic text.
Sea Critters
Enhanced with parent/teacher notes and vivid photos, this comprehensive guide explores the creatures of the deep ocean in their natural habitats.
Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish
"Exceptionally handsome photographs light up the pages of this well-designed introduction to jellyfish. A few sentences or fragments, closely tied to the illustrations, appear on each spread. The words underscore the variety of jellyfish in the sea and point out their comparative simplicity, their special features, and their unforgettable beauty. The sometimes impressionistic, informative text begins by helping readers to imagine life as a jellyfish: 'If you were a jellyfish you would have two choices―to go up or to go down. That's it. Two.' An intriguing introduction to the subject."―Booklist
Life in a Coral Reef
Coral reefs are some of the largest natural structures in the world, and they are created by tiny coral polyps no bigger than a grain of rice. This Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book introduces readers to the amazing world of the coral reefs and the many marine animals who lived there.
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor
When Ms. Frizzle drives the Magic School Bus full speed ahead into the ocean, the class takes a submarine expedition that's anything but ordinary. With a well-meaning lifeguard in tow, the class takes a deep breath and learns about hot water vents, coral reefs, plant and animal life on the ocean floor, and more!