| Sea Soup: Zooplankton Contributor(s): Cerullo, Mary M. (Author), Curtsinger, Bill (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0884482197 ISBN-13: 9780884482192 Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2001 Annotation: Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children, 2002 - CBC/NCSS Notable Books for Children, 2000 - Smithsonian Honor Book - Society of School Librarians International |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction |
| Dewey: 592.177 |
| LCCN: 00046721 |
| Lexile Measure: 1120 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 9.3" W x 10.31" (1.06 lbs) 40 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 51227 Reading Level: 6.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is the fastest animal in the world? What can dive as deep as a whale or make a submarine disappear in the ocean? The answer is zooplankton! The ocean is teeming with these small, drifting animals that come in all shapes ands sizes, from tiny zippy copepods to large, brilliantly colored jellyfish (that you don't want to bump into). There are some very strange zooplankton, like the arrow worm -- you can see what it had for lunch inside its stomach! Some zooplankton give off a ghostly underwater glow, and others are poisonous, like the sea wasp, a jellyfish that has killed more swimmers of Queensland in northern Australia than the great white shark. Some zooplankton are temporary zooplankton, drifting along on ocean currents when they are young, but turning into fish or crustaceans when they grow up and swim on their own. Other zooplankton and zooplankton all their lives -- or until they get eaten! Zooplankton are an important meal in the ocean food web. A single blue whale may devour up to eight tons of shrimp-like krill a day. That's a big serving of sea soup! Bill Curtsinger's extraordinary photography brings us right into the watery world of zooplankton, while Mary Cerullo's lively text answers our questions about these fascinating ocean creatures. |
Contributor Bio(s): Curtsinger, Bill: - Bill Curtsinger, like many explorers before him, first traveled to Antarctica as a young sailor. He was in the Navy Combat Camera Group, assigned to photograph the work of National Science Foundation researchers. In the years since, Bill's photography has appeared in numerous books and magazines, including National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, Outside, Natural History, and Smithsonian.Curtsinger, Bill: - Bill Curtsinger, like many explorers before him, first traveled to Antarctica as a young sailor. He was in the Navy Combat Camera Group, assigned to photograph the work of National Science Foundation researchers. In the years since, Bill's photography has appeared in numerous books and magazines, including National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, Outside, Natural History, and Smithsonian.Cerullo, Mary M.: - Mary Cerullo decided at thirteen that she ought to become an oceanographer. Although her career has always centered around the ocean, she discovered that she preferred exploring many different topics, which led her to teach and write about the ocean instead. She likes to immerse herself in her topic, so a few years ago Mary went on an underwater dive with ten Caribbean reef sharks. She has written 20 nonfiction books on ocean life for children, including City Fish, Country Fish, Sharks (a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year), Octopus (a Junior Library Guild Selection), Giant Squid (an Outstanding Science Trade Book selection by the NSTA and the CBC), and The Truth About White Sharks (IRA Teacher's Choice Award). Mary is the associate director of Friends of Casco Bay, an environmental group on the Gulf of Maine. |