Seashore (DK Eyewitness Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 155810
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 72
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0756607213
Dewey Decimal Number: 578.7699
UPC: 690472007210
EAN: 9780756607210
Publication Date: August 2, 2004
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Product Description
New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text!
Here is an original and exciting new look at the fascinating natural world of the seashore. Stunning real-life photographs of crabs, lobsters, tide pools, fish, seals, seabirds and more offer a unique "eyewitness" view of life on the seashore. See a starfish on the move, how a sea urchin disguises itself, a sea anemone catch a prawn, the inhabitants of a tide pool, and fish that change color. Learn how a limpet grips the rock, how a crab grows a new leg, how a prawn becomes invisible, how seabirds catch fish, and how a sea otter sleeps at sea. Discover how long seaweed can grow, why hermit crabs live in secondhand shells, which shells bore holes in solid rock, where a puffin lays its eggs, and much, much more.
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 Where sea meets land October 1, 2008
Judy K. Polhemus (LA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The seashore is at the edge of the land going out to sea. Yes, but, it is also that exact meeting point of the sea and the shore, the feminine and the masculine, the yin and the yang, water and earth. Not meaning to get mystical, but doesn't the seashore strike you that way? Perhaps that's why we have the myth of Poseiden and mermaids. Perhaps that is why life teems at this meeting of land and sea.
"Eyewitness Seashore" shows the reader how water meets shore and how water shapes that shore. Evidence of high tides, low tides, and rock composition can be read in the sides of standing rocks and cliffs across the planet where water meets shore.
Algae, limpits, barnacles, kelp, oysters--all thrive right at the edge of water. Do you know there are seaweed forests underwater in some parts of the world?
Then just a few inches further landward and a whole new line of life emerges: the seashells. Then come the tide pools filled with all manner of life, including fish.
Now we're back into the sea to discover the anemones, so many kinds. Then come the jellyfish and corals and the spiny-skinned creatures. And the borers and builders and crabs and lobsters. Now Eyewitness takes us to the birds perched on ledges overseeing the seashore. Cormorants, puffins, and there are squid and sea otters and finally, man as beachcomber and preserver, historian and artist.
Seashore (DK Eyewitness Books) August 31, 2008
debbie (Massachusetts usa)
My family and I spend our summer weekends boating and exploring the shores of islands in Narragansett Bay (RI). We see many things and my 7 year old son asks questions I don't always have the answers for. This book helps us identify what we are looking at and gives us a brief dessciption of each. We love this book. We also bought Oceans (DK Eyewitness Book).
Wonderful discussion of the seashore for young readers November 7, 2008
Steven A. Peterson (Hershey, PA (Born in Kewanee, IL))
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is another excellent entry in the Eyewitness Books series, this time authored by Steve Parker. The book begins with context, noting that with so much of the Earth covered by water, there will, obviously, be large slivers of beach. The author notes that shores are strange places, "being the edge of the land as well as the edge of the sea."
The book begins by noting the forces that have shaped the shore, from surf, to tide, to corrasion (a term that I had never run across before--meaning that boulders and sand are thrown by the sea against the shore and, thus, change it). There is a lucid discussion of different types of rocks one can find along the seashore.
Shores have a lot of life, from plants (such as lavender, thyme [I didn't know that!], flowers) to animal life (such as tide-pool fish such as clingfish, butterfish, and goby) to, of course, sea shells. Flower-like animals, such as anemones and jellyfish (I still remember my first foray into the Atlantic Ocean ending with a rapid retreat to shore as a jellyfish "stung" me) and sea stars and so on.
All in all, this will be a great "read" for the young. Or even younger children would appreciate their parents reading this to them, showing the wonderful diagrams, before the kid can read. Nice way of parent-child bonding. . . .
 A good book that studys the seashore. September 3, 1999
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a good book because it studys life on the seashore and things that live on it, like sea stars and crabs.
 Just Okay. September 11, 2007
RainyMom (Washington State, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book isn't as good as I had hoped it would be.
While there is a lot of information, and the book might appeal to an older child (perhaps a 10 year old?) who really loves tidepool creatures, this isn't a good book for younger children. Many of the pictures have a dull, yellowish or brownish look to them, unlike most DK books. There are also a lot of decorative drawings that just aren't that great. Most of the creatures shown look unfamiliar to me, so I'm guessing that they are from the Atlantic Ocean. My children were dissapointed not to see a single purple starfish, the most common thing they see at the seashore. Perhaps Atlantic sealife just lacks color, but I'm betting that the pictures are showing their age.
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