Synopses & Reviews
With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. Itandrsquo;s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckersandmdash;suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow.
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; But most intriguing of all, octopusesandmdash;classed as mollusks, like clamsandmdash;are remarkably intelligent with quirky personalities. This book, an inquiry into the mind of an intelligent invertebrate, is also a foray into our own unexplored planet. These thinking, feeling creatures can help readers experience and understand our world (and perhaps even life itself) in a new way.
Review
"Laced with dialogue that accentuates the trainers' affection for the dolphins and sense of urgency, Coleman's clipped narrative recounts the rescue of all eight. . . the late Nascimbene's dappled watercolors have a lovely silk-screened quality, contrasting the destructive force of the hurricane and the tranquility that arrives in its wake."
and#8212;Publishers Weekly
"A spark of hope in the wake of a devastating natural disaster."
and#8212;Kirkus
"Animal lovers will empathize as they follow the trainers' worries and ultimate elation. A heartening, real-life rescue story."
and#8212;School Library Journal
"Heartwarming and informative."
and#8212;Booklist
Review
* andquot;Chapters of action, with smoothly integrated explanatory background, are interspersed with informative passages about octopuses, the field station, and coral reefs...Amazing photographs reveal the octopusesand#39; remarkable shape-changing abilities and help readers visualize this experience. Science in the field at its best.andquot;
andmdash;Kirkus, starred review
* andquot;Endlessly fascinating.andquot;
andmdash;Booklist, starred review
Synopsis
Winter is a dolphin. Just over two years ago, when she was a baby, she was rescued from a crab trap, her tail seriously damaged. Winter was rushed to Clearwater Marine Aquarium, a marine animal hospital. It wasn't clear that she would survive. She did, but eventually the tail fell off and Winter compensated by swimming more like a fish than a dolphin which was seriously damaging her spine. But for the last year, Winter has been learning how to use a prosthetic tail. The idea came from a company that makes prosthetics for humans. It was very challenging but Winter is thriving and using her new tail with great command. The word has gotten out about Winter. Visitors are traveling in droves to Clearwater to visit Winter who has become an inspiration to adults and children alike, especially to children who are amputees themselves. The tale doesn't end there. The special technology used for Winter's prosthetic tail is being used to develop prosthetics for Iraq war veterans who have especially sensitive injuries.
Synopsis
The authors chronicle the story of a dolphin named Winter, who is rescued from a crab trap as a baby, after suffering a seriously damaged tail. Winter is later fitted with a prosthetic tail. The special technology used for Winter's prosthetic tail is now being used to develop prosthetics for Iraq war veterans, who have especially sensitive injuries.
Synopsis
The original hardcover upon which the major motion picture is based on!
When Winter was a baby, she was rescued from a crab trap, her tail seriously damaged, and rushed to Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Winter survived, but eventually her tail fell off. Then Winter received a prosthetic tail. It was very challenging but now Winter is thriving and using her new tail with great command. Every year, thousands of visitors travel to visit Winter who has become an inspiration to adults and children alike, especially to children who are amputees themselves. And now Winter's story is soon to be a major motion picture starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Harry Connick Jr.!
Synopsis
A beautifully illustratedand#160;nonfiction picture book that accounts the true story of eight bottlenose dolphins and their trainers who survived theand#160;devastating Hurricane Katrina.
Synopsis
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina crashed a forty-foot tidal wave over the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. The dolphin house was demolished, and its inhabitants swept from their tank into the Gulf of Mexico. After growing up in captivity, how could the eight bottlenose dolphins feed and protect themselves in the wild? And if they could survive, would their trainers ever see them again? This fascinating picture bookand#8212;enriched with both beautiful color-wash illustrations and photographs taken by the trainers themselvesand#8212;tells this dramatic, happy-ending story.
Synopsis
Part of the award-winning Scientists in the Field series, The Octopus Scientists takes readers to the waters off of Moorea, Tahiti to study the mind of the mollusk. Follow scientists as they uncover the secrets of its advanced intelligence and learn what these thinking, feeling creatures have to teach us about the oceans, its animals,and#160;and ourselves.
About the Author
Janet is a talented nonfiction children's author. Her book, Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History of Spies and Espionage (Abrams, 2006), was a 2007 ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee, recipient of the National Parenting Publications 2006 gold award, and Scholastic book fairs took about 60,000 copies of the book. Her other recent non-fiction titles include Baseball for Everyone: Stories from the Great Game (Abrams, 2003), a Publishers Weekly Best Non-fiction Books of 2003 selection, and Famous Bears and Friends (Dutton, 2002). She is the proud mother of two grown sons and lives in Wayland, Massachusetts.Half-French, half-Italian, Yan Nascimbene shared his childhood between these two countries. After working as a photographer's assistant in a Paris fashion studio, Nascimbene studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at the University of California at Davis. Nascimbene's illustrations have appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, Boston Globe, Toronto Life, Scientific American, Atlantic Monthly, Hemispheres, etc. His commercial clients include Air France, British Airways, Continental Airlines, IBM, Apple, Macy's, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Bank of America, United Way, Estand#233;e Lauder, Manpower, and more. andnbsp;andnbsp;andnbsp;andnbsp; Nascimbene also illustrated Houghton'sandnbsp;Hachiko by Pamela Turner and The Beautiful Christmas Tree by Charlotte Zolotow