A Turtle's View of the Ocean Blue

by Catherine Barr (Author) Brendan Kearney (Illustrator)

A Turtle's View of the Ocean Blue
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Dive into this stunning guide that explores the underwater world, its wildlife, the challenges it's facing and how you can help to protect it. Join your sea turtle guide as you navigate every inch of our oceans, from the sunlit surface to the deepest, darkest depths. This beautiful book will help you explore the five oceans on our planet, meeting the creatures who live there and finding out just how their incredible surroundings work. From tides and currents, to migrations and conservation, see our oceans in action and learn how you can help to save them. This is a great follow-up to the very successful A Cat's Guide to the Night Sky, as it introduces young readers to our oceans, the underwater wildlife and the natural phenomena that take place as well as discussing the challenges we're currently facing and what we can do to help save our big blue world. The book contains a glossary and is suitable for children aged 6+. Written by expert author Catherine Barr, who previously worked as the Greenpeace Sea Turtle campaigner, and with gorgeous artwork from celebrated illustrator Brendan Kearney, this is a must-have for all young readers.
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$19.99

Catherine Barr
Catherine Barr studied ecology at Leeds University and trained as a journalist. She worked at Greenpeace International for seven years as a wildlife and forestry campaigner and has a long-running interest in environmental issues. While working as an editor at the Natural History Museum, she researched and wrote two major summer exhibitions. Her previous books include How Colour Works, The Story of Life, 10 Reasons to Love ... and Red Alert!Gómez studied Fine Arts at the well-known University of Salamanca (Spain). A new talent, she has worked for several publishing houses in Europe, such as SM in Spain, Le Petit Bulles Edition in France, and Scholastics and Sterling in the USA. Her book Hedgehog and Rabbit. The Scary Wind is a Junior Library Guild Selection.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781786279101
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Laurence King
Publication date
April 20, 2021
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF037020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection
JNF037070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Water (Oceans, Lakes, Etc.)
JNF003360 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Turtles
Library of Congress categories
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