I feel that this book would be better for teenagers or adults as it isn't very child friendly, due to the amount of text and not many pictures. Excellent if you love to learn about Sharks. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Although this is slightly too grown up for my daughter, it's a great fact filled book for children cpredominantly about sharks but also about other animals of the ocean.
Great little facts throughout and photos throughout - great read.

Either a wonderful book, or something that leaves you short-changed, depending on your point of view. It's fine and easily readable (if some of the pages are too busy with pull-quotes splashed across the middle like a headline has dropped down the page), but once we cover how sharks operate, breed and whether or not they are a major threat to us, we're on to crabs, jellyfish, things poisonous, and the rays and skates that at least are, due to their cartilage, cousins to the sharks. About forty per cent of the book then is the shark, with a great chunk for the rest, and up to a fifth on ecological notes, glossaries and helpful cues for further investigation. All that would, with the strong pictorial element and ease of conveying the science, make for a must-buy for the school library, but the title is only half the story. I enjoyed the contents, not so much the vague mis-selling. (Oh, and it's been tweaked since its 2002 debut, but might duplicate something you already own.)