By Ruth Musgrave
A loud, photo-packed everything-you-can-fit-in-a-book about sharks, made for the child who wants more than a picture-book worth and is ready to really dig in.
This is the fat, busy fact book for the child who has outgrown the starter readers and wants the whole buffet. Big National Geographic photographs on every page, quick punchy facts, maps of where sharks live, a comic-style adventure running through it, quizzes, and expert tips. It covers how sharks hunt, how their senses work, the biggest and the strangest species, and yes, shark attacks, handled squarely: what actually happens, why it is so rare, and how much more we harm sharks than they harm us. A child can graze it for facts or read it cover to cover.
For a shark obsession that has grown past the early readers, this is the next real step: denser text, more of it, and enough on every page to keep a strong seven to eleven year old busy for hours. It rewards a child who wants depth rather than a single story, and it treats them as capable of handling the real subject, including attacks, without either dodging it or dwelling on it. It is the kind of book that gets read until the spine gives out.