| View Larger Image | Outside and Inside Giant Squid (Outside and Inside (Walker & Company)) | Paperbackby Sandra Markle (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Walker Books for Young Readers | | Page Count: | 40 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 21, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 69,683th |
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Product Description
Explore the eerie world of giant squid, a creature never yet seen alive!Plunge into the darkest depths of the ocean and discover some of the strangest, most mysterious creatures on earth: giant squid. These amazing animals have eyes as large as volleyballs, can be as long as a city bus, and may weigh up to a ton. Without living specimens, scientists have only been able to study the dead bodies of giant squid that have washed ashore or been found by fishermen and compare them with the Architeuthis dux’s nearly 500 smaller relatives. These mysterious behemoths are just as strange as more commonly seen squid, only their oddities are giant-sized. With beaks, suckers, three hearts, eight arms, and rubbery bodies made almost entirely of muscle, squid are among the most fascinating inhabitants of the ocean’s deep. With rare and remarkable photographs and crystalline prose, Sandra Markle illuminates the world of these incredible creatures. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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You asked for it by Dana Beaudry (Seattle)  5 Stars
January 20, 2008
I had to learn a lot about the Giant Squid and this book was so great, and excellent for elementary learners especially.
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everybody loves big squids! by Mark Montague (Altadena, CA, USA) 5 Stars
March 22, 2006
As a longtime fan of cephalopods in general and squids in particular, I was very impressed by this book. It's quite good at being accessible to readers of a fairly young age while not "dumbing down" the science at all. It has a variety of color plates, both from giant squid dissections (from the lab of Clyde Roper, one of the world's foremost experts on the giant squid) and from pictures of other squids in their natural environment. (Until recently, no one had ever seen or photographed a giant squid in its environment at all, so showing smaller squids is really the best way to illustrate these amazing animals... and Ms. Markle is careful to describe which pictures are giant squids and which are smaller ones.)
This is a great book to get for a budding marine biologist... I expect it's interesting enough to hold the attention of a lot of kids, but it will particularly appeal to those who are excited to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium or watch Jaques Cousteau documentaries.
It's important to note that this is really a biology book, and it does show photographs of dissected animals. I don't find it disturbing at all, but for someone extremely squeamish, that could be an issue.
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