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319 pages : colour illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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The world's oceans are filled with an array of venomous and toxic marine critters, not to mention a whole host of apex carnivores. Join ace divers and photographers Nick and Caroline Robertson-Brown as they tour the world in search of the 50 deadliest sea creatures. Animals covered come from all around the globe and include jellyfish, sea snakes, blueringed octopuses, lionfish, pufferfish, stingrays, cone shells, leopard seals, orcas, crocodiles and,...
3) In the ocean
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Introduces animals found in or around the sea, including the dolphin, octopus, and penguin.
4) Sea bones
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"Did you know that Jellies (not Jelly Fish -- because they aren't actually fish) have no bones and no brains? Or that the largest animal on Earth is the blue whale? Join author-illustrator Bob Barner as he makes waves with this lush picture book about the sea featuring his signature rhyming text and colorful illustrations. Filled with incredible fishy facts about vertebrates, invertebrates, endoskeletons, and exoskeletons, and an underwater informational...
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Packed with fun activities, crafts, reading games, and amazing facts, kids can take a dive under the waves and meet all the colorful creatures beneath from clown fish to starfish to jellyfish in this educational project book." -- ONIX annotations.
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"This nonfiction picture book uses a guessing game to introduce eight different ocean animals and some unique aspects of their bodies. First, readers are shown a close-up illustration of an unusual part of an animal's body and asked to guess its owner. The following spread reveals the animal's name along with an illustration of the whole animal in its habitat. There's also a brief description of the animal's traits with a special emphasis on the featured...
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"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct. An acclaimed dinosaur expert, Don Lessem has written more than 30 children's books, writes a popular dinosaur column in Highlights magazine, and was an adviser for Jurassic Park. Take a trip through dinosaur time to meet these sea giants face-to-face: The Archelon was similar to a turtle, but its shell was...
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Meet some of the wackiest creatures under the sea--creatures that look like food--through eye-catching photos and engaging text. This funny, informative book introduces readers to the egg yolk jellyfish, the lettuce sea slug, the chocolate chip sea star, and many more! Accessible text and engaging photos make this a very fun read.
11) Oceans
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56 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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English
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Readers will learn about the ocean and discovering what life is like in the depths of the ocean.
13) Clownfish aren't so funny: fascinating facts about some of the ocean's most misunderstood creatures
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22 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
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English
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Dive in and enjoy these surprising stories about the ocean's smallest creatures! Clownflsh aren't funny, cuttlefish aren't cuddly, and mantis shrimp aren't so shrimpy (they're TOUGH dudes)! While sharks, whales, and dolphins get plenty of attention, the real drama of the ocean takes place in the nooks and crannies of coral reefs. And some of the coolest critters there are no bigger than a golf ball, stay hidden from plain sight, and are real killers....
14) Deep blue
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1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Twenty specialized camera teams shot over 7,000 hours of footage in more than 200 locations around the world and descended as far as 5,000 meters in the most powerful submersible crafts to bring the audience this spectacle of underwater exploration into the secret lives of sea creatures.
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1 videodisc (approximately 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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NOVA and National Geographic take a dazzling dive to explore how and why so many of the ocean's creatures light up, revealing a hidden undersea world where creatures flash, sparkle, shimmer, or simply glow.
16) Ocean counting
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Presents young readers with a foundation for learning basic counting skills while discovering some magnificent ocean animals. Fact boxes in the back of the book include information about the animals' homes, sizes, diets, predators, and babies --
19) Aliguq
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21 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Inuktitut
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The experiences of a young child as she and her grandmother go for a walk along the shore to gather clams for the family's supper. During the experience Alego finds many new and interesting animals and creatures that live the tide pools along the shore and grandmother teaches her the names of the creatures.
20) In the sea
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1 volume : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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Collects poems describing the many creatures living in the sea, from the sea horse to the blue whale.
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