Navigators: Oceans and Seas - Softcover

Hynes, Margaret

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9780753465417: Navigators: Oceans and Seas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753465418 ISBN 13: 9780753465417

Publisher: Kingfisher, 2010

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Navigate your way through a fantastic range of subjects with this visually spectacular new series. Every spread is brimming with lively text, amazing photographs and artworks, and weblinks and quotes. Panels throughout offer focused information on specific topics.

Dive into the world of "Oceans and Seas." Discover how the oceans looked in ancient times and how they've changed to the oceans we know today. Find out how oceans and seas are a phenomenal force when effected by the weather and by humans. With essential facts and amazing artwork, Oceans and Seas explores the wonder of the world's waters.

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Margaret Hynes has written and edited a variety of children's titles on topics as diverse as vocabulary, dinosaurs, history, soccer, science, and animals. She is also the author of Kingfisher Young Knowledge: Polar Lands.

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Titles in the Navigators series don’t require 3-D glasses for viewing, but there is still a remarkably dimensional quality to the images that spring from every page. Following the image-heavy format popularized by such series as DK’s Eyewitness Books, each spread combines exciting color photos and computerized art with succinct text blocks filled with high-interest, unusual facts. Oceans & Seas provides an inviting introduction to saltwater ecosystems, from tide pools to the deep sea. Additional spreads address currents; the anatomy of waves, the effects of overfishing, pollution, and global warming; and current efforts to preserve oceans and seas and harness them for renewable energy. A brief section about historic exploration (including a cutaway of Captain Cook’s ship) adds human interest to the earth science facts. Students and browsers will glean a great deal of information from the dynamic interplay between words and images, and they’ll want to continue their research on the Web sites referenced on every spread and in the appended resources, which also include books and suggestions for related museum exhibits and films. Grades 4-6. --Gillian Engberg

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