DK Eyewitness Books: Fish

By Steve Parker and D.K. Publishing

Book Overview

DK Eyewitness Books: Fish is an exciting and informative guide to the fascinating world of fish. Striking color photographs of tropical fish, eels, seahorses, and more offer a unique eyewitness view of the natural history of fish, how they behave, and how they survive. See the lethal jaws of a piranha, a porcupine fish puffing up, how a dogfish swims, growth rings on a fish scale, what a fish looked like 400 million years ago, and a fish with legs. Learn how a school stays together, why some fish swim upside down, how a stingray stings, and why fish need water to breathe, and much, much more The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789458101
• ISBN13: 9780789458100
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent addition to the series

For those who are new to the Eyewitness format, it consists of thematically arranged two-page spreads of brilliant photographs on a white background. There is an intro paragraph in the upper left-hand corner, but most of the text is in the captions that go with the photographs. Generally, the biological sciences titles are the strongest in this series, since other topics often need a more organized progression of topics. You'll...

Great Bath Books

Our 4 month-old loves the DK Bathtime books -- clownfish and duck. She looks at them every night; the pages are easy for her to turn and soft enough to chew on. It's hard to find bath books, and the DK bathtime books are the best I've found.

FISHES IN THE OCEAN

FISHES ARE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE ANIMALS THIS WAS A GOOD DK BOOK.DK BOOKS ARE MY FAVOURITE BOOKS [...]

fish book for the TV generation

I bought this book for my son, my 3 y/o fish enthusiast, and the two of us have learned so much. The text, the captions and the marvelous pictures combine to make this a top quality product. My three year old has learned the parts of the fish, how they breathe. He has learned about the seahorse and about his favorite: the flounder (flatfish). The organization of this book allows for kids with short attention spans to still...

A very good book with facts of meny diffrent kinds of fish.

This is my 3rd favorite Eyewitness book coming after my 1st favorite, Eyewitness SHARK. This book is a very good book to read because it has meny diffrent kinds of fish. You should buy this book.