The Big Book Series: Exploring the Blue - A Comprehensive Guide

Gwenny Ross: This was a gift, for a little boy, turning 6 off whom, is 'challenged', with autism.
However, when it comes to remembering "the proper names", of animals, dinosaur's, the ancient and unusual marine life, he's on the button & enjoys reminding, you so!
He loved this book, so many sections on the differing, types of marine life & introducing many, many more to him.
Lots of information on the species, the eras, that they lived in,almost like an encyclopedia, for children.
The illustrations and colours, are beautiful & amazing.
The feel of the book is of, really good quality.
This is part of a series of books, on different types of animals.
I will be adding to the collection.

United Kingdom on Sep 24, 2023

Taylor: A great addition to a children’s library

United States on May 18, 2023

Valeriia K: Got this as a Christmas gift and it was just perfect for a 2.5 yo boy!

United States on Jan 21, 2023

Katie: I love these big books. We have a couple of them by now. They're really good for educational purposes and very aesthetic. They're much better than other children's books that make up creatures.

United States on Jan 15, 2023

Alex e.: Muy bonito y es un libro muy grande. Llego en tiempo.

Mexico on Nov 29, 2022

Mauricio Gomez: Muy bonitos los dibujos, todo el arte del libro está genial y muy padres las explicaciones.

Mexico on Oct 04, 2022

Dan: My son loves sea life and has been fascinated by the ocean. He loves this book and had proudly shown it to anyone who will pay attention.

The colours are bright and he’s enjoyed learning some of the facts (which he reels off at every opportunity).

Well worth a look for any budding marine biologist.

United Kingdom on May 07, 2022

Shivranjini Krishnamurthy: I bought it for my niece for her birthday and she totally adores the book and lapped it up in no time. I think this book is a wonderful way to introduce young children to the ocean’s abundant creatures and inculcate love and a sense of conservation of them.

India on Aug 16, 2021

Amazon Customer: I wanted to expand on an ocean section in my son’s science textbook in a fun way, which led me to this. However, I wasn’t sold until I saw it had a sticker book companion. As much as I loved the quick and easy fun-filled facts on every page, I didn’t feel I could get him to sit still long enough without a related activity to excite him about the information. I liked that it involved no writing (but you are excoriated to doodle if you want) and included the stickers correlating with exactly what I was reading. We have done 1 a day and have about 5 days left until we finish the sticker book. This was such a great learning tool and so much fun for both of us. I plan to get the sticker book again when my next child enters kindergarten and look into the other books in the series for other mini units in the next school year.

Observations I noticed: the reading book has a few more pages than the correlating pages in the sticker book offer. The sticker book does not follow the sequence of the reading book’s table of contents. Lastly, it wasn’t clear until we almost finished, but many of the fish stickers are extras to be used with the themes of the pages like “whales”...

United States on Jun 30, 2021

Hope-Librarian: This is a zany book for parents who want to interact with their kids in a fun way. I think you will be oohing and aahing along with them; I’m pretty sure you’ll find out some new, interesting facts, too. And teachers, this is a treasure. Not only does the wonderful artwork pull you into a whole new world with each page, but you are asked questions like, “Does a seal live in the sea or on land?”, and “how do fish move?”. The answers are fascinating. Plus, author Zommer likes to play with words. The whale is “in for the krill”. Kids who are developing their reading skills will find it helpful that each 2-page category tends to have a lot of repetition, like the pages that cover seahorses, and the ones that cover snakes that live underwater, and flying fish.

Kids who live near a body of water will recognize some facts and learn about others. Kids who don’t live near the water will recognize facts they’ve learned on TV and enjoy learning new ones.

Yuval Zommer may have a master’s degree in illustration, but he thinks like a kid and has the same creative ideas. And for this book he consulted Dr. Barbara Taylor, a NOAH scientist. So, the facts are...

United States on Oct 07, 2018