I Wonder Why the Sea Is Salty: and Other Questions About the Oceans

by Anita Ganeri

Insatiable young oceanographers will discover amazing facts in this compendium of marine questions and answers.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Childrens, Picture Books, Education, Animals

32 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 1994

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Abdullah Hussaini · Rating 5 out of 5]

its good

[Alexis Satterfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Summary:
This book is about all the questions people may have about salty waters. The book starts with the larger topic of the Earth’s oceans. It includes its sizes and where they are. The book then starts to break down questions about the oceans. Each page there is several questions with fun facts for each as well. Questions range from the oceans temperatures, to animals, to appearance underneath water to who used to hunt the oceans. It is a series of I Wonder Why.

Evaluation:
This nonfiction text was very busy. I felt has though it would have been better to have all the content on multiple pages instead of multiple on one page. I loved the content though and the facts it provided. Students may enjoy this book when research salty waters that Earth holds. I liked how there was illustrations for each fact. It allowed the reader to visualize how the ocean’s bottoms may look.

Teaching Moment:
I’d use this text to introduce nonfiction writing. I’d let students explore this book and find the characteristics that make it nonfiction. The students can then model or take information from this text depending on their topic. This book is appropriate for upper elementary therefore it may even be useful for a research paper.

[Portable · Rating 4 out of 5]

The "I Wonder Why" series are aimed at slighter older than our kindergarten children, as they have detailed information sections. However, they're great for sharing as they are full of interesting illustrations, and because they model asking and answering questions. They're great to demonstrate how we can use books to find information, and for reading together. This series would be great for at home reading also.

[Yenny Peguero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really interesting to read with kids 😁🐬

[Breighton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genre: informational nonfiction
Grade: 2
I really liked this book. It was informational even for me at 19 years old.

[Owen Elliott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! I love it!

[Hiba · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good non-fiction book for kids. Kept both my 5 year old and I engaged.

[Elias · Rating 5 out of 5]

a book that tells facts about the ocean. you should definitely check it out! it's a really really good book.

[Meena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dulu baca buku ini bareng anak, tapi baru dikelarin lg skrg, stlh taunan nangkring di status "reading".

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of interesting facts.

[Amelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gives great information about different oceans, the creatures that live in them, and other great facts. This book has good illustrations (not real photos) and has a lot of information about the sea and sea life. I would say this book is appropriate for older students because some of the words are more difficult to read and comprehend.

[Julia]

-including it in the classroom library

[Katie Zebrowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this series for my fact loving kids!