Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef ... to find out how it works!
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Chris Oxlade (Author)
Chris Oxlade is an experienced writer of information books for children. He specialises in science and technology, and has written more than sixty titles, on subjects ranging from kites to virtual reality, as well as books on various forms of transport.
Sean O'Brien (Illustrator)
Sean O'Brien (He/Him) is an Illustrator based along the Sunny South Coast in Brighton, UK. With a love of mark making and traditional drawing, he uses humour, staging and a playful colour palette to visually communicate through his illustrations. Outside of cycling, running and walking in the countryside, he enjoys science, sports and buildings, especially when being close by to draw them!
www.seanrobobrien.com
www.instagram.com/seanrobobrien_
Peel back, take apart, reassemble and enjoy the awesome science of a coral reef!
Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef is full of all the most colourful, microscopic and surprising features of a coral reef. Picking apart the built-up layers of this beautiful biome - the tough coral skeleton and the delicate polyp structures - and uncovering the reef's many inhabitants, we get to know the pieces and partnerships that make a coral reef so vital to our oceans. Finally, see how it all goes back together as a symbiotic whole, and learn the science of saving reefs around the world.
Contents include: Welcome to the coral reef / Under the surface / Coral polyps / Stingers and algae / Reef growers / Life on the reef / Fish around the reef / Nooks and crannies / Camouflage / Colours and patterns / Predators / Building up a reef / Reefs in danger (bleaching, invasive species, climate change)
Inside Info is a stylish and engrossing series of books diving into the layers of things kids are curious about - giving them the chance to pull it all apart and put it back together again, while learning STEM fundamentals! Full of cross-sections, cutaways, exploded diagrams, labels, jokes and easter-egg details for the curious reader aged 7+ to discover.
The series presents the Inside Info of:
Supercars, A Rocket, A Rollercoaster, A T. rex, The Human Body and A Coral Reef
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Chris Oxlade (Author)
Chris Oxlade is an experienced writer of information books for children. He specialises in science and technology, and has written more than sixty titles, on subjects ranging from kites to virtual reality, as well as books on various forms of transport.
Sean O'Brien (Illustrator)
Sean O'Brien (He/Him) is an Illustrator based along the Sunny South Coast in Brighton, UK. With a love of mark making and traditional drawing, he uses humour, staging and a playful colour palette to visually communicate through his illustrations. Outside of cycling, running and walking in the countryside, he enjoys science, sports and buildings, especially when being close by to draw them!
www.seanrobobrien.com
www.instagram.com/seanrobobrien_