A Sea Full of Sharks

by Betsy Maestro

Book Overview

Describes the varieties, habitats, behavior, and physical characteristics of sharks. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590431013
• ISBN13: 9780590431019
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A great overview

This was a nice introduction to sharks. It covers several different kinds of sharks. It has a nice illustration of the cartilage frame of a shark which really helped the kids understand it better. There is information on feeding, birth and swimming. While we've read a lot about sharks this book had new information and held their attention. The illustrations were well done, but actual pictures would be helpful as well. There is a reference to "400 million years ago" which, depending on your world view, would need to be edited. This wasn't all "environmental wacky" either. It does say that humans kill sharks and use them for various things, and that sharks sometimes kill people, but both sides are presented fairly and without judgment. One of the better basic shark books. If you want to go indepth, you'll need to find something else though. My 3rd graders and K kid loved it. *taken from my review at goodreads