My Life as a Great White Shark (My Life Cycle)

by John Sazaklis (Author) Bonnie Pang (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: My Life Cycle
Hi, there! I'm a great white shark. Don't let my sharp teeth scare you off. I started life much smaller, just like you! Learn more about my life cycle and how I went from a tiny little shark pup to the ocean's top predator.
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School Library Journal

Gr 1-2--Beautifully expressive illustrations display the life cycles of featured organisms from seed or birth into adulthood and continuing life. Each title works to bridge emerging readers through a mix of picture book art styles and richer sentence structures found in early chapter books. Readers step into each life to see how the subject is born, eats, and grows over time with a stylized titular host leading the way. The peeks inside acorns and eggs as they grow are fascinating. VERDICT Elementary aged students will delight in the familiar style and amusing characters, while educators will enjoy the ease with which these titles introduce the building blocks of life.

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John Sazaklis
New York Times bestselling author John Sazaklis enjoys adventures of his favorite characters. To him, it's a dream come true! By day, John is a somewhat mild-mannered art director and designer at a publishing house. He has also illustrated Spider-Man books and created toys used in MAD magazine. John lives with his equally (if not more) super-powered, beautiful wife and daughter in New York City.

In 1942, the launch of Little Golden Books revolutionized children's book publishing by making high-quality picture books available at affordable prices. More than 60 years later, many of the original Golden Book titles are still wildly popular, with The Poky Little Puppy topping the list of ten bestselling children's books of all time. Golden Books' backlist is teeming with classics such as Dorothy Kunhardt's Pat the Bunny, and features the stories and artwork of children's book legends Mary Blair, Margaret Wise Brown, Richard Scarry, Eloise Wilkins, Garth Williams, and many more. Today, the Golden Books imprint includes an array of storybooks, novelty books, and coloring and activity books featuring all of the most popular licenses, including Disney, Nickelodeon, Barbie, Thomas & Friends, The Cat in the Hat, Sesame Street, Marvel Super Heroes, and DC Super Friends. Golden Books continues to reissue the best of its backlist in a variety of formats, including ebooks and apps, as well as bringing out brand-new books in these evolving new formats.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781663984852
Lexile Measure
680
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Publication date
January 20, 2022
Series
My Life Cycle
BISAC categories
JNF003150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Marine Life
JNF051050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Biology
JNF037070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Water (Oceans, Lakes, Etc.)
Library of Congress categories
Life cycles
White shark

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