By Joe Flood
Everything about sharks, from ancient monsters to why they matter, drawn as a comic.
Sharks have been around longer than trees, and this comic lays out the whole story: how their bodies became such perfect hunting machines, the giant prehistoric ones with teeth the size of a hand, the strange deep-sea species most people never hear about, and how they actually behave, which is a lot less like the movies than a child expects. It also makes the real case that sharks are in trouble and the ocean needs them. Facts on every page, all of it drawn.
This is catnip for the shark-obsessed child who'll watch shark shows for hours but won't touch a book. It gives them the real thing, biology, evolution, actual species names, inside their favorite format, so they read a hundred-plus pages without a fight. It also gently dismantles the man-eating-monster myth and hands them a genuine conservation story, which is a more grown-up take than the shark-attack books usually manage. Part of the same Science Comics series, so it's an easy next pick after Dinosaurs.