Seashore

100 Things You Should Know About . . .

by Steve Parker

Full-color photos. The secrets of sea otters, crabs, seashells, and more are revealed in this unique photographic overview of plant and animal life inhabiting the world's coastlines.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Animals, Childrens, Reference, Nature, Picture Books

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer known for producing hundreds of children's and adult nonfiction books covering zoology, medicine, evolution, and natural history. Educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, where he earned first class honours in zoology, he later worked at the Natural History Museum and held editorial positions at Dorling Kindersley before becoming a freelance author during the late 1980s. Parker contributed early titles to the acclaimed Eyewitness series and later wrote award-winning books including Science Crazy, Fizzing Physics, The Human Body Book, and Kill or Cure. He has also edited major collaborative works on evolution and medicine, regularly visits schools and libraries, and serves as a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful book, for all ages.

[Lorenzo Giammarino · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seashore, by Steve Parker is a great nonfiction book to teach your kids about the seashore. This book has things about the living things on shore, or under the sea. It is fun to read and helps you learn about it at the same time. I read it and it taught me stuff I didn't even know about. I rated this book 4 out of 5 stars because it was a good book and I liked it. I would recommend this book for all ages.

[Jobiska (Cindy) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Compact but stuffed with great illustrations, science information, and hands-on things to try. My son's outgrown it, so it's going to his school's library.

[Lynn Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a 63-page book full of colour, photos, and drawings. This is such a wonderfully informative book about the plants and animals that live close to the shore.
Contents:
The World of the Seashore;
Shaping the Shoreline;
The Holdfast Habitat;
Shells of the Shore;
Gripping the Rock;
Inside a Tide Pool;
Tide-pool Fish;
Flower-like Animals;
Tentacles and Stings;
Stars of the Sea;
Borers and Builders;
Hard Cases;
Unusual Partnerships;
Disguises;
Life on a Ledge;
Feeding by the Sea;
Visitors to the Shore;
Beachcombing;
Preserving Our Shores.

[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

My libraries copy has a different cover but I think it's the same book. There are not as many animals in this book as the other ocean books I've used in lessons (only starfish,crabs, lobster, seal are large). This book has large or detailed photographs of seaweed, anemones and shells etc. Each page is a different type of thing found on the shore, which makes it not the best book for my coral drawing lesson, but would work still if I didn't have more specific books on coral.

[Ietrio · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty book. Not too useful, but full of full color pictures.

[Patsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic non-fiction book about the seashore. Awesome illustrations and pictures. The cover is amazing.

[Little Timmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

OK I know these are supposed to be kid books but they are awesome! Great pictures and just enough text to make you want to learn more. Great choices for a beginning history reader or to start an older reader out in a new area. Every time I pick one of these up and read it I learn new things. Highly Recommended

[Suzy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 9 year old son found this book very interesting, it gave us a nice evening together looking at all the facts.

[Deborah Harris]

AR Quiz No. 17241 EN Nonfiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP

[Jessica Formosa · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was very interesting to read and learn new things with my son!

[Jalen S]

April Book Report
The Seashore
Steve Parker

In the eyewitness book series, the Seashore provides many facts about what goes on towards land. Things that are in a Seashore can range from rocks to plants to animals. Plants and animals that are held in seashores are seaweed, starfish, blennies, gobies, anemones, sea urchins, and crabs. Sometimes, certain animals need each other to live. For example, parasitic anemones grow on hermit crabs. The anemones feed off of foot that the hermit crabs drop, and while anemones are made to sting like a jellyfish, the crabs don't get harmed. The anemones protect them in certain ways. There are many more factors to seashores, but these are some of the basic ones.

One theme of this book that every body should understand is that seashores are broad and very unpredictable. This is because animals in the shores are different than everyday animals we see everyday. For example, sea urchin lurk in little burrows near or on rocks. This is a type of animal that doesn't just walk on land and pass by. Seashores are also unpredictable because of plants in it. For example, anemones "wave" their stingy tentacles around. Like the sea urchins, anemones can be found near seashores, and don't pop up on shores just like that.