Wild Oceans: A Pop-up Book with Revolutionary Technology

by Lucio Santoro, Meera Santoro

Overview

Journey into the mysterious world under the sea as 3-D pop-ups swing off the page, bringing to life whales, dolphins, angler fish, and much more! Filled with stunning art and interesting facts about various oceanic zones—such as coral reefs, the frozen sea, the deep sea, and much more—Lucio and Meera Santoro take readers on an interactive and imaginative journey deep beneath the surface of the blue sea!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416984672
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	09/14/2010
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	140,430
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 10.40(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Lucio Santoro is the author of Wild Oceans, a Simon & Schuster book.

Lucio Santoro is the author of Wild Oceans, a Simon & Schuster book.

Editorial Reviews

This vibrant pop-up from the veteran paper engineers explores the vast world of ocean biology from tide pools to deepest depths. Flaps, sidebars, and panels describe the characteristics of specific animals ("Sea stars use hundreds of tiny suction cups to eat, move, and cling to rocks"), and each spread features pull-down panels, which focus on topics like bioluminescence. Large 3-D compositions--a splashing blue whale, a toothy purple anglerfish, a leopard seal--leap off the richly layered pages, representing the abundant diversity of the sea. A visually dynamic book that seamlessly blends education and entertainment. Ages 6–up. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

A 3-D tour of the oceans with an emphasis on the sensational. From fairly benign tide pools and open sea, the Santoros take readers to the midnight zone (a toothy anglerfish leers in the central pop-up), coral reefs (a great white shark hurls itself through the branching formation) and Antarctica (a leopard seal pursues a penguin, unaware of the orca about to chomp on it). Ranged round the central pop-ups are short paragraphs of related facts, which are supplemented by slide-out tabs covered with further information. Readers who stop to peruse these will pick up a fair amount. "Green sea turtles are a species so ancient that it witnessed the extinction of the dinosaurs"; "Antarctic cod produce proteins that act as antifreeze to lower the freezing point of their blood." A showy introduction to a fascinating subject. (Pop-up nonfiction. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews