The Sea Book (Conservation for Kids)

The Sea Book is a spectacular book for introducing children to our oceans. The beautiful illustrations show our oceans are home to such a variety of living things. The book takes you through various living conditions in the ocean and at the end of the book discusses the problems our oceans are facing, wrapping up with a call to action on how to help save our oceans.
This book has tons of sea animal facts that I absolutely love to read! Here is one on my favorite sea animals, the Gray Whale. Gray Whales travel 10,000 miles a year, which is THE longest migration trip of any mammal. I love it!
I would love to have this book for my library. I think it make a great addition for any classroom or homeschooling family as well.

This book has been the perfect addition to our homeschooling unit on Oceans. It has beautiful artwork and reflects everything we are learning a few examples Ocean zones, why the sea is important, food chains, sea turtle life cycle, mammals, artic, coral reef and bleaching, dark and deep, over fishing, weather, plastic, how you can help. My daughter is in middle school and we both enjoyed it very much, its a keeper.

We love all Charlotte Milner books and this one did not disappoint. My daughter was so excited when I said we were reading a book like The Bee Book we had previously read. We find them interactive and a perfect addition to our homeschool studies. The illustrations are amazing and enhance the words. A book that teaches and is also fun to look at is a bonus for small children.

Thanks to Net Galley for an advanced copy of Sea Book. The book is a wonderful resource for browers and for students looking to narrow down choices when looking to do further research. The book is rich with facts and despite it being a children's book, I found myself commenting out loud more than once, "wow, I didn't know that." It's a great fit for those students who will read each and every bubble fact and for those students who gather a few facts and move on. Lots of great information.

I really enjoyed Charlotte Milner's The Bee Book, and even based a homeschool summer science unit around it. So I was happy for the chance to review The Sea Book, another installment (rhyming, even!) from the same author/illustrator.

Like the previous book, this one features clear designs and colorful illustrations (with lots of blue, of course), and begins with the big picture of the oceans on our planet, and then "zooms in" to look at specific areas and ecosystems (such as coral reefs, kelp forests, and the arctic), as well many examples of the types of sea creatures that inhabit them. The blocks of text are fairly short and concise, but there are enough pages here that this would probably be best read in multiple sittings, at least if read to young children.

The last few pages focus on the problem of plastic trash in the ocean, and give some ideas for how we can help keep our planet clean. There is also a tutorial for how to make a reusable shopping bag out of an old T-shirt! I like how this section seems to flow in a straightforward manner from the rest of the book and takes the problem seriously without coming across as heavy-handed.

I think this one will be a great addition to our homeschool library as well.

(Thanks to NetGalley for the review copy.)