SUPER SWIMMERS: WHALES, DOLPHINS, AND OTHER MAMMALS OF THE SEA
Book ID/图书代码： 02920007B12807
English Summary/英文概要： Some of the ocean’s best swimmers don’t have gills or scales. They breathe air just like you. These marine mammals are specially adapted to life in the water. Some can swim fast and dive deep. Others are experts at long-distance travel. All are born knowing how to swim.
Meet aquatic animals--from whales and walruses to polar bears and dugongs--and discover how they survive in the world’s oceans.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 来看看海洋哺乳动物吧，有海豚，海獭，海牛 和其他海洋动物们，去发现他们如何在海底世界生活……(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：From School Library Journal
Grade 4–6—Wynne’s handsome, realistic watercolors present a wide variety of sea mammals, from the expected to the less heralded. Arnold’s gentle, conversational text is relatively brief, but the captions accompanying the illustrations encapsulate a good deal of additional data. They include such diverse topics as swimming methods, blowholes, ocean pressure, parenting, and echolocation. For those not ready for George S. Fichter’s more demanding Whales and Other Marine Mammals (St. Martin’s, 2001) but wanting the same broad spectrum of aquatic life, this is an attractive, informative introduction.—Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
From Booklist
This attractive introduction to marine mammals begins with whales, dolphins, and porpoises and then goes on to discuss seals, sea lions, walruses, manatees, dugongs, sea otters, and polar bears. One short section identifies a few mammals that swim in freshwater lakes and rivers. Various aspects of the swimmers’ anatomy are highlighted throughout (e.g., how a torpedo-shaped body helps an ocean dweller propel itself through water. The well-organized, succinct text is accompanied by clearly delineated ink drawings, washed with delicate colors. Precise yet lively, the large-scale illustrations show the animals swimming in their habitats or, occasionally, at rest near the water, while smaller vignettes offer close-ups of special features, such as whales’ blowholes or a sea otter’s fur. A glossary is appended. Carolyn Phelan
About the Author/作者介绍： Caroline Arnold grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and spent her summers at a small camp in northern Wisconsin. It was there that she developed her love of animals and the outdoors, delighting in catching sight of deer leaping through the underbrush or a porcupine scrambling up a pine tree.
Caroline began writing children’s books nearly twenty years ago when her own two children were small. After receiving her MA in art from the University of Iowa, Caroline planned on writing and illustrating her own books, but these days most of her books are illustrated with photographs. She now uses her keen sense of observation to learn about her subjects and pass along her close-up views to children.
"My hope is that if kids fall in love with the animals in my books, as I do when I write about them, they will be concerned for the animals’ future and want to do what they can to protect the animals and the places where they live."
Books by Caroline Arnold include Birds: Nature’s Magnificent Flying Machines, Shockers of the Sea, African Animals (Morrow Junior books), Dinosaur Mountain (Clarion Books), which was named an ALA Notable Book.
In addition to writing, Caroline spends much of her time reading, gardening, and traveling. She visits many elementary schools telling children about her books and encouraging them to read and write. Caroline also teaches part-time in the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension School.
Caroline lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Arthur.
Caroline is the recipient of the Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award in 2005.
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