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| Seashore (Eyewitness Books) | 
| Author: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1303478
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 63
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0394822544
Dewey Decimal Number: 591.90946
EAN: 9780394822549
ASIN: 0394822544
Publication Date: September 5, 1989
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| Customer Reviews:
 Where sea meets land October 1, 2008
18 out of 35 found this review helpful
The seashore is at the edge of the land going out to sea. Yes, but, it is also that exact meeting point of the sea and the shore, the feminine and the masculine, the yin and the yang, water and earth. Not meaning to get mystical, but doesn't the seashore strike you that way? Perhaps that's why we have the myth of Poseiden and mermaids. Perhaps that is why life teems at this meeting of land and sea.
"Eyewitness Seashore" shows the reader how water meets shore and how water shapes that shore. Evidence of high tides, low tides, and rock composition can be read in the sides of standing rocks and cliffs across the planet where water meets shore.
Algae, limpits, barnacles, kelp, oysters--all thrive right at the edge of water. Do you know there are seaweed forests underwater in some parts of the world?
Then just a few inches further landward and a whole new line of life emerges: the seashells. Then come the tide pools filled with all manner of life, including fish.
Now we're back into the sea to discover the anemones, so many kinds. Then come the jellyfish and corals and the spiny-skinned creatures. And the borers and builders and crabs and lobsters. Now Eyewitness takes us to the birds perched on ledges overseeing the seashore. Cormorants, puffins, and there are squid and sea otters and finally, man as beachcomber and preserver, historian and artist.
Seashore (DK Eyewitness Books) August 31, 2008
My family and I spend our summer weekends boating and exploring the shores of islands in Narragansett Bay (RI). We see many things and my 7 year old son asks questions I don't always have the answers for. This book helps us identify what we are looking at and gives us a brief dessciption of each. We love this book. We also bought Oceans (DK Eyewitness Book).
 Just Okay. September 11, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book isn't as good as I had hoped it would be.
While there is a lot of information, and the book might appeal to an older child (perhaps a 10 year old?) who really loves tidepool creatures, this isn't a good book for younger children. Many of the pictures have a dull, yellowish or brownish look to them, unlike most DK books. There are also a lot of decorative drawings that just aren't that great. Most of the creatures shown look unfamiliar to me, so I'm guessing that they are from the Atlantic Ocean. My children were dissapointed not to see a single purple starfish, the most common thing they see at the seashore. Perhaps Atlantic sealife just lacks color, but I'm betting that the pictures are showing their age.
A good book that studys the seashore. September 3, 1999
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a good book because it studys life on the seashore and things that live on it, like sea stars and crabs.
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