Outside and Inside Giant Squid

By Sandra Markle

Book Overview

Explore the eerie world of giant squid, a creature never yet seen alive Plunge into the darkest depths of the ocean and discover some of the strangest, most mysterious creatures on earth: giant squid.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802788726
• ISBN13: 9780802788726
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

You asked for it

I had to learn a lot about the Giant Squid and this book was so great, and excellent for elementary learners especially.

everybody loves big squids!

As a longtime fan of cephalopods in general and squids in particular, I was very impressed by this book. It's quite good at being accessible to readers of a fairly young age while not "dumbing down" the science at all. It has a variety of color plates, both from giant squid dissections (from the lab of Clyde Roper, one of the world's foremost experts on the giant squid) and from pictures of other squids in their natural environment. (Until recently, no one had ever seen or photographed a giant squid in its environment at all, so showing smaller squids is really the best way to illustrate these amazing animals... and Ms. Markle is careful to describe which pictures are giant squids and which are smaller ones.) This is a great book to get for a budding marine biologist... I expect it's interesting enough to hold the attention of a lot of kids, but it will particularly appeal to those who are excited to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium or watch Jaques Cousteau documentaries. It's important to note that this is really a biology book, and it does show photographs of dissected animals. I don't find it disturbing at all, but for someone extremely squeamish, that could be an issue.