Ocean: A Peek-Through Picture Book

by Britta Teckentrup

Overview

From the bestselling series that began with Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book comes an elaborate and beautiful children's book with peek-through holes that show the amazing life in the world's oceans.

Discover a world teeming with life beneath the waves, with graceful sea horses, darting tropical fish, electric eels, and humpback whales. A colorful array of sea creatures is brought to life by award-winning illustrator Britta Teckentrup in this delightful, innovative picture book—with peek-through holes that reveal details of life in the ocean with each turn of the page.

It's the perfect light nonfiction book for young readers curious about the world around them. And it will spark great conversations about the importance of keeping our oceans clean and protecting the amazing creatures who live there.

Look for all the books in the Peek-Through Picture Book series: Tree, Bee, Ocean, Moon, Home, and Bugs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525647201
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	05/28/2019
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	301,806
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

BRITTA TECKENTRUP has written and illustrated over seventy children's books, which have been published in over twenty countries. Her books include Tree, Bee, Ocean, Moon, and Home in the Peek-Through Picture Book series, plus Big Smelly Bear, Grumpy Cat, and The Odd One Out. Born in Hamburg, Germany, and educated in London at St. Martin's College and the Royal College of Art, she lives with her family in Berlin. See her work online at brittateckentrup.com and follow her on Instagram at @britta_teckentrup.

Editorial Reviews

05/17/2019

PreS-Gr 1-With rhyming text, vibrant illustrations, and small-scale cut-outs that little fingers will love, this book introduces young readers to a variety of creatures that live in the ocean. Each page contains two simple lines that rhyme, and each two-page spread captures one animal or thought. For example, "Gleaming and sparkling, the coral sea/Is a place of magical mystery./As the ocean's tides ebb and flow,/ A secret world lies deep below." Children will be introduced to a variety of marine creatures: lionfish, sea horses, puffer fish, great white sharks, dolphins, humpback whales, and manatees. The narrative jumps somewhat randomly between creatures that live near a coral reef and those that are dwellers of the open ocean. VERDICT With stylized illustrations that really pop, this colorful book will introduce children to the creatures of our beautiful ocean but cannot replace more scientifically based nonfiction titles.-Sally James, South Hillsborough Elementary School, Hillsborough, CA

School Library Journal

2019-02-06

Peek through fish-shaped holes to see ocean inhabitants.

In the latest in her series of titles using die cuts that began with Tree (2016), German artist Teckentrup explores a "secret world" underwater. Stylized images of tropical fish, grasses, sponges, and more are arrayed in colorful scenes. Peek-through holes reveal creatures yet to come. Hegarty's text consists of rhyming couplets forced into an awkward narrative describing what's depicted, starting with a coral reef's inhabitants: small fish, sea horses, dolphins, a lionfish. Under the threat of a great white shark, a squid squirts ink, a puffer fish puffs up, and smaller fish scatter and swarm into a fish-shaped school. Then night falls, and "Jellyfish, eels, and manta rays / Dance and bob in bright displays." Finally, the fish hear a humpback whale and encounter a manatee and her babies "in an ocean meadow." Returning to the reef world, the writer encourages readers to protect the environment. While the images are intriguing to look at, the pages, though of heavy stock, are not likely to stand up to repeated peeks and pokes, and the depiction of the ocean world is more fancy than fact, conflating wildly different ocean niches and anthropomorphizing the fish who stop to listen to the whale's song.

Lovely to browse through but not likely to linger in a child's mind or last in circulation. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews