Dolphins And Sharks

The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains: A Book About Food Chains

Patricia Relf, Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 32 pages

A class trip to the beach becomes an underwater lesson about food chains when Arnold and Keesha are challenged to discover what a tuna fish sandwich and some smelly green pond scum have in common.

The Edge of the Sea

Rachel Carson · 276 pages

We see how the tides, waves, and ocean current shape the living creatures that depend on them. Three main types of environment--the rock shore, the rim of sand and the coral coast found on the American Atlantic coast are studied in detail.

The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor

Joanna Cole · 48 pages

Wowee! A class trip to the ocean! Finally, the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are going on an ordinary field trip, just like everyone else. But when the Friz drives onto the beach, across the sand, and straight into the ocean water without stopping, the kids know that they have once again embarked on one of Ms. Frizzle's crazy class trips.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck · 286 pages

This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure.

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

Katherine Roy · 46 pages

Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again

Juliana Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff

Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

Claire A. Nivola

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

Wendy Williams · 222 pages

In addition to squid, both giant and otherwise, Kraken examines other cephalopods, including the octopus and cuttlefish.

One Tiny Turtle

Nicola Davies · 32 pages

This lyrical and informative look at the elusive and endangered loggerhead turtle is sure to delight young nature lovers. Far, far out at sea lives one of the world's most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Until, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs—the very same beach wher

Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality

Helen Scales · 274 pages

A fascinating journey with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years Poseidon's Steed trails the seahorse through secluded waters across the globe in a kaleidoscopic history that mirrors man's centuries-old fascination with the animal, sweeping from the reefs of Indonesia, through the back streets of Hong Kong, and back in time to ancient Greece and Rome. Over tim

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

Jonathan Balcombe · 296 pages

"The author of Second Nature challenges popular misconceptions to explore the complex lives of the planet's diverse fish species, drawing on the latest understandings in animal behavior and biology to reveal their self-awareness, elaborate courtship rituals and cooperative intelligence,"--NoveList.

The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature

Richard Ellis · 322 pages

"An authoritative look at the biology and mythology of the world's most elusive sea creature".--Jacket.

Pagoo

Holling Clancy Holling · 88 pages

From the moment of his birth, Pagoo the hermit crab learns to rely on his "instinct" in order to survive to adulthood in his tide pool home.

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery · 261 pages

This awe striking, almost alien trip, draws us into the otherworldly watery realm of cephalopods --- except they aren't alien. Octopuses (not octopi, as the author informs) may arguably be as intelligent, as highly curious, and absolutely more dexterous than human beings. Sy Montgomery introduces us to these creatures with their fascinating and individual personalities.

A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

Samantha Weinberg · 240 pages

"Just before Christmas 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the young curator of a small South African museum, spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes, and remarkable limb-like fins - unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up w

Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity

David Kirby · 469 pages

A scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of America's most beloved marine mammal park. It centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the United States, Naomi Rose, the author tells the s

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith · 272 pages

"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sproute

A Whale for the Killing

Farley Mowat · 220 pages

***In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation.*** Some local villagers thought otherwise, blasting the whale with rifle fire and hacking open

The Sea Inside

Philip Hoare · 374 pages

In this book the author sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles, like the migration patterns of whales, he explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand. As he weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable peo

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville · 420 pages

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.

Riding the Storm

Ben M. Baglio · 161 pages

"The McGraths have arrived in the Bahamas. Jody can't wait to see some Atlantic spotted dolphins and maybe find out if the rumors about a lost treasure ship are really true. But will a major tropical storm put her plans on hold?"--Cover p. 4.

A Ring of Endless Light

Madeleine L'Engle · 332 pages

Young poet Vicky sets on the adventure of finding herself light behind darkness in the circle of three different boys.Who will she choose? Sea grey eyed Adam? Undesriptionable Leo? Dark daring Zachary?

Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

Michael Capuzzo · 317 pages

Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916

The Silent World

Jacques-Yves Cousteau · 242 pages

The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery & Adventure, by the 1st Men to Swim at Record Depths w/the Freedom of Fish is a '53 book coauthored by Capt Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Frédéric Dumas, edited by James Dugan. Tho French, Cousteau wrote it in English. It's the basis of the '56 Academy Award winning The Silent World. As of its 50th anniversary it has been translated into 22 languages, sold