Offers new perspectives about favorite sea animals through striking, lifelike art and engaging capsule profiles of species ranging from tiny copepods and the golf ball-sized blue-ringed octopus to the green sea turtle and the blue whale.

See ocean creatures at their actual size! Lifesize Ocean offers a unique opportunity to see a variety of amazing creatures at their actual size. Unbelieveable, eye-catching illustrations show beautiful scences and perspectives; the artwork is as vibrant and real as a photograph, but better! Presented in a lavish picture-book style with lyrical text that will fascinate young readers. The underwater adventure takes you from very small copepods to the largest of all - the mighty blue whale. Along the way you will come face to face with an array of underwater creatures including camouflaged seahorses, adorable sea otters and an alarming hammerhead shark. Further information spreads show each animal in its entirety, along with fascinating facts and figures.

Let's go on a LIFESIZE adventure! Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of the world's most amazing animals. High-five a polar bear to discover who has the biggest paw and peer through the die-cut to find out how you'd look with a giant squid eye. Silver Award winner in the Made for Mums Awards 2020 This interactive non-fiction adventure features LIFESIZE illustrations of some of the smallest and largest animals in the world and invites children to compare parts of their bodies with these amazing animals. This huge, playful book is the perfect introduction to animals for young children and is the first non-fiction book from picture book star, Sophy Henn. Climb into the book for a truly wild adventure . . . Try the other books in the series for more LIFESIZE fun! LIFESIZE DINOSAURS (9781405293952) LIFESIZE BABY ANIMALS (9781405299497) LIFESIZE DEADLY ANIMALS (9780008534301) LIFESIZE CREEPY CRAWLIES (World Book Day 2023) (9780008591304) Sophy Henn's book Lifesize Creepy Crawlies was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 13-02-2023. Sophy Henn is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator with an MA in Illustration from the University of Brighton. She is the creator of the much-loved Pom Pom series and her book Where Bear? was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Sophy was the World Book Day Illustrator in 2015 and 2016. Height: 1.75metres (Or almost 6 Lifesize books laid end to end!) How tall in Lifesize books are you?

Photographs and text provide information about a wide variety of marine animals.

Dive into the ocean and meet monsters with the magic of augmented reality Colossal squid, deadly box jellyfish, and giant tube worms: Ocean Monsters is packed with fascinating information about the biggest, fiercest, and strangest creatures that live in our oceans. Thanks to the AR app, you can come face-to-face with a life-size, sharp-toothed shark; walk with a giant Japanese Spider crab; and drive a submersible through the watery depths . . . all from the convenience (and safety ) of your tablet or smartphone.

This delightful board book, by the author of Giraffes Can’t Dance, features a collection of rhyming poems with colorful illustrations and is a wonderful way to introduce little ones to the animals and fish who live in and around the ocean. Children will love learning about marine life with these fun and snappy poems! This adorable and educational collection includes: · Lively, colorful illustrations on every page · Clever rhyming verses perfect for bedtime read aloud · Rounded corners and sturdy pages for little hands · Many different animals to meet from in and around the ocean, including whales, walruses, penguins, polar bears, stingrays, and sharks · A special secret creature to find on every page!

Who among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed in wonder at its shape and hue? Many a lifelong shell collector has cut teeth (and toes) on the beaches of the Jersey Shore, the Outer Banks, or the coasts of Sanibel Island. Some have even dived to the depths of the ocean. But most of us are not familiar with the biological origin of shells, their role in explaining evolutionary history, and the incredible variety of forms in which they come. Shells are the external skeletons of mollusks, an ancient and diverse phylum of invertebrates that are in the earliest fossil record of multicellular life over 500 million years ago. There are over 100,000 kinds of recorded mollusks, and some estimate that there are over amillion more that have yet to be discovered. Some breathe air, others live in fresh water, but most live in the ocean. They range in size from a grain of sand to a beach ball and in weight from a few grams to several hundred pounds. And in this lavishly illustrated volume, they finally get their full due. The Book of Shells offers a visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most intriguing mollusk shells, each chosen to convey the range of shapes and sizes that occur across a range of species. Each shell is reproduced here at its actual size, in full color, and is accompanied by an explanation of the shell’s range, distribution, abundance, habitat, and operculum—the piece that protects the mollusk when it’s in the shell. Brief scientific and historical accounts of each shell and related species include fun-filled facts and anecdotes that broaden its portrait. The Matchless Cone, for instance, or Conus cedonulli, was one of the rarest shells collected during the eighteenth century. So much so, in fact, that a specimen in 1796 was sold for more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer at the same auction. But since the advent of scuba diving, this shell has become far more accessible to collectors—though not without certain risks. Some species of Conus produce venom that has caused more than thirty known human deaths. The Zebra Nerite, the Heart Cockle, the Indian Babylon, the Junonia, the Atlantic Thorny Oyster—shells from habitats spanning the poles and the tropics, from the highest mountains to the ocean’s deepest recesses, are all on display in this definitive work.

Sylvia Earle first lost her heart to the ocean as a young girl when she discovered the wonders of the Gulf of Mexico in her backyard. As an adult, she dives even deeper. Whether she's designing submersibles, swimming with the whales, or taking deep-water walks, Sylvia Earle has dedicated her life to learning more about what she calls "the blue heart of the planet." With stunningly detailed pictures of the wonders of the sea, Life in the Ocean tells the story of Sylvia's growing passion and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world. This picture book biography also includes an informative author's note that will motivate young environmentalists. Life in the Ocean is one of The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012

Oceans are one of the world’s most interesting ecosystems! This information-rich title takes readers under the sea to explore the watery world of ocean biomes. Along the way, readers will love learning about the plants and animals that make their home in the ocean. From plankton and kelp to walrus and sea turtles, the detailed photographs that accompany the text will fascinate readers. This text supports important elementary science standards, such as understanding the relationship between creatures in a habitat, the effect of human intervention, and adaptation and survival techniques. Fact boxes and a simple global map provide opportunities for additional learning.

Provides life size facts about dinosaurs.