Secrets of the sea / written by Kate Baker ; illustrated by Eleanor Taylor.
Material type: TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Big Picture Press, 2017Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 83 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780763698393
- 0763698393
- Marine animals -- Juvenile literature
- Marine biology -- Juvenile literature
- Ocean -- Juvenile literature
- Phytoplankton -- Juvenile literature
- Microorganisms -- Juvenile literature
- Marine ecology -- Juvenile literature
- Aquatic ecology -- Juvenile literature
- Water -- Microbiology -- Juvenile literature
- Fishes -- Juvenile literature
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 591.77 B167 | Available | 33111008977569 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 591.77 B167 | Checked out | 06/28/2024 | 33111008852572 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A stunning look at some of the most extraordinary and rarely seen creatures from under the sea
This book takes you on a journey to discover an incredible and rarely seen world. From the rock pools along the shoreline to the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, breathtaking illustrations reveal the sea's creatures--from the microscopic and the bizarre to the fragile and the deadly--in all their startling beauty. Welcome to the secrets of the sea.
Includes bibliographical references (page 82).
Traveling from the rock pools of the shoreline to the deepest depths of the ocean, a blending of illustrations and facts about marine animals provides an introduction to some of the ocean's rarely seen creatures.
Introduction -- In the Shallows (Shallow Sea). Common blenny ; coconut octopus ; European lobster ; horseshoe crab ; daphnia ; sea sparkle ; bryozoa ; common sea star -- Forests of the Sea (Kelp Forest). Giant kelp ; cyanobacteria ; hooded nudibranch ; fish gills ; purple sea urchin ; diatoms -- Coral Gardens (Coral Reef). Coral polyp ; galaxy coral ; zooxanthellae ; pygmy sea horse ; bubble coral shrimp ; giant clam ; queen parrotfish ; zooplankton ; foraminifera -- The Wide, Wide Blue (Open Ocean). The blue dragon and man-of-war ; sea butterfly ; sea angel ; moon jelly ; radiolaria ; acantharea -- Into the Deep (Deep Sea). Giant Pacific octopus ; swordtail squid ; deep-sea siphonophore ; atolla jelly ; giant tube worms ; radiolarian ooze.