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Find Demi's Sea Creatures: An Animal Game Book
From the tiniest sea horse to the giant blue whale, this book exhibits Demi's ability to use her artistic talent to produce an offering that is both enjoyable and educational.—School Library Journal. Full color.
- GenresPicture Books
50 pages, Hardcover
First published September 18, 1991
About the author
Demi
184 books179 followersDemi (September 2, 1942) born Charlotte Dumaresq Hunt, is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. During her career she has published over 300 titles.
Demi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the great-grand daughter of the American painter William Morris Hunt, and the great-grand niece of architect Richard Morris Hunt. Demi earned her nickname as a young child when her father started calling her demi because she was half the size of her sister.
She studied art at Instituto Allende, Mexico, and with Sister Corita at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright scholar at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India where she received her Master’s degree.
Demi is known for her biographies for spiritual figures including Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mary (mother of Jesus), Muhammad, Rumi, Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama.
In 1990, Demi and her husband Tze-si “Jesse” Huang represented the United States at the First Children’s International Book Conference in Beijing.
Source: Wikipedia
Demi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the great-grand daughter of the American painter William Morris Hunt, and the great-grand niece of architect Richard Morris Hunt. Demi earned her nickname as a young child when her father started calling her demi because she was half the size of her sister.
She studied art at Instituto Allende, Mexico, and with Sister Corita at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright scholar at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India where she received her Master’s degree.
Demi is known for her biographies for spiritual figures including Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Mary (mother of Jesus), Muhammad, Rumi, Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama.
In 1990, Demi and her husband Tze-si “Jesse” Huang represented the United States at the First Children’s International Book Conference in Beijing.
Source: Wikipedia
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October 17, 2025
Prolific picture book author and artist Demi turns to the ocean in this sixth of her search-and-find game books. Each two, three or four-page spread is devoted to a sea creature—octopus, manatee, flying fish, sea dragon, coral fishes, lobster, oarfish, great white shark, electric eel, giant clam, sea horses, lion mane jellyfish, swordfish, manta ray, opah, sea turtle, blue whale, giant squid, deep sea fishes, and seaweed sea star—with the larger outline of the creature in question filled in with lots of smaller creatures in the artwork. The reader must then hunt within the larger picture for the match to the specific animal that is shone in the circular key on that spread...
Although I am not always the best audience for search-and-find books, because my eyes grow tired very easily, I enjoyed Demi's initial foray into this format, the 1985 Demi's Find-The-Animal A.B.C.: An Alphabet-Game Book , and being engaged in a reading project involving her work, decided to track down some of her other books in this vein. Although published some years later in 1991, Find Demi's Sea Creatures: An Animal Game Book was the only other such title in my local library's collection. In any case, like that first book, it boasted some gorgeous illustrations, and I loved the use of color and the overall composition, with the many little animals fitting into the larger ones, or parading across the page. That being said, I was disappointed to see that there was no answer key here, as there was with the first book. I always like to check myself, after finding whatever is being sought, and it was frustrating not to be able to do so. Given that this is a game book, I think the absence of an answer key is a significant flaw, and it caused me to subtract a star from my rating. Leaving that issue aside, I would still recommend this one to children who enjoy search-and-find picture books of this sort, as well as to admirers of Demi's artwork.
Although I am not always the best audience for search-and-find books, because my eyes grow tired very easily, I enjoyed Demi's initial foray into this format, the 1985 Demi's Find-The-Animal A.B.C.: An Alphabet-Game Book , and being engaged in a reading project involving her work, decided to track down some of her other books in this vein. Although published some years later in 1991, Find Demi's Sea Creatures: An Animal Game Book was the only other such title in my local library's collection. In any case, like that first book, it boasted some gorgeous illustrations, and I loved the use of color and the overall composition, with the many little animals fitting into the larger ones, or parading across the page. That being said, I was disappointed to see that there was no answer key here, as there was with the first book. I always like to check myself, after finding whatever is being sought, and it was frustrating not to be able to do so. Given that this is a game book, I think the absence of an answer key is a significant flaw, and it caused me to subtract a star from my rating. Leaving that issue aside, I would still recommend this one to children who enjoy search-and-find picture books of this sort, as well as to admirers of Demi's artwork.
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August 24, 2025An I Spy Book
April 8, 2013
Beautifully done! Enthralling art work of some of my favorite sea creatures.
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