Beautifully illustrated. I very much enjoyed this book! A perfect complement to a unit study on oceans, environement amd earth science.

This is the best book about oceans!!! This book would be great to use Ina classroom for for a child that loves the water. Throughout you can even use your phone to see real ocean life that is being talked about!!

Patricia Newman knows her stuff and her books reflect that. However, this one was a bit long for me. Beautiful photos but only your ocean fanatic would pour through the information on each page.

This book is full of beautiful photographs of the oceans and its inhabitants. It also shows the real damage humans have caused to the ocean environment. Each chapter is well laid out, and written in a way that is engaging to students. There are many embedded technology activities that bring this book to life for the reader. It includes a good balance of men and women scientists, as well as different races and enthinicites too. The diagrams are easy to read, and every photo demonstrates the awesome ocean ecosystem. There is a thorough glossary, a huge list of sources, and even a list of recommended books for further reading. If you are looking for a high quality, engaging ocean book for the nonfiction section in the school library, or want a book to beef up your ocean unit in the classroom, then this is the book for you!

There is a handful of science books written for upper elementary and middle school that truly engage students. "Planet Ocean: by Patricia Newman is one of them. The captivating stories of our one ocean directly align with National Science Standards, from interdependence, food web, climate change, animal adaptation, geography, global climate change, plastic pollution, etc. This book deservingly earned a spot as a 2021 Earth Day science text.

There was a lot of information in this book. I think it would need to be used as a reference about the ocean instead of reading it just as a book.