National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of the Ocean (National Geographic Little Kids First Big Books)

Excellent !!!

I bought this as a complementary to the two other popular kid books of the national geographic series (first big book of animals and first big book of dinosaurs) Like the other two that is perfect to widen the nature knowledge and imagination of my kid. Pages are full of colorful photos of a wide variety of sea organisms.

The cover might be misleading for those who expect an assortment of fish types. This book offers an excellent balance of fish, reptile, mammals, birds and invertebrates that either live in the ocean or on the shore. Not only that, it also categorizes them according to the ocean they live in. All oceans including the arctic ones are covered. This offers your kid a better understanding of the different ecosystems.

The fascinating photos are accompanied with a paragraph or two long text that gives some useful information. Parents, do not underestimate those texts as simple info for kids. As a person that is working in biological sciences, I can not believe how much I learnt from them.

At the end it has an index and some useful guidance suggestions on how parents can help their kids get the most out of the book.

Front cover implies that this book will be full of colorful fish, but only a few of the included animals are fish--yes, they cover lots of marine mammals, birds, invertebrates, etc., but it contains only 5 actual fish (Anglerfish, Lionfish, Porcupinefish, Clownfish, Cod) plus two sharks. Strangely, it is arranged by ocean, not type of animal, which I think would be more logical, as most of the animals listed in each ocean live in several oceans.