You are about to go on an amazing journey. Grab your backpack and your notebook, and come with us to the Great Barrier Reef. Discover where you would find a sea cucumber and the size of a giant clam. Use the map to help you find your way along the longest and most thrilling coral reef in the world. Your field guide will tell you all you need to know about the amazing animals that live among the coral. Learn about the effects human actions have on coral reefs. You will discover why it is important to protect coral reefs.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Rod Theodorou is a Heinemann-Raintree author.
From School Library Journal:
Grade 2-6AThese colorful books have engaging, informative texts and a pleasing format, but they are not without flaws. As the authors guide adventurers along the Great Barrier Reef or the length of the Mississippi-Missouri rivers, children learn how these ecosystems function and about the plants and animals that inhabit them. The maps give clear, well-ordered overviews of the trips and coordinate page numbers with each section of them. Plentiful, full-color photographs enhance the well-organized information. However, the accompanying illustrations prove a weak point. Errors appear (in Coral Reef, a labeled "cowrie" shows a bonnet shell), as does poor label placement (the illustration of an anemone is almost completely covered by its own label as well as another from an adjacent illustration). Size perspective is confusing (in River a hummingbird appears to be as large as a full-grown alligator's head). The glossary is not always helpful or accurate. Readers are told that filter "means to sieve out" and that parasites are "animals or plants that live in or on other plants or animals." Some children may not understand the word "sieve" any better than "filter" while others may misconstrue that birds living in or on trees are parasites. Serviceable presentations, marked by some missteps.ALisa Wu Stowe, Great Neck Library, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherHeinemann/Raintree
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1403487901
- ISBN 13 9781403487902
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Edition number2
- Number of pages32