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The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea. Helaine Becker. Illustrated by Willow Dawson. Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press, 2012. 80 pp., pbk. & hc., $10.95 (pbk.), $16.95 (hc.). ISBN 978-1-55453-747-1 (pbk.), ISBN 978-1-55453-746-4 (hc.).
Subject Headings:
Ocean-Juvenile literature.
Marine ecology-Juvenile literature.
Marine Pollution-Juvenile literature.
Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12.
excerpt:
Let There Be Life!
Boiling undersea vents are hot, to be sure. But they are also really cool! Some scientists now think that life on Earth may have started in them!
According to Gunter Wachtershauser, the scientist who first proposed the theory, the vents release an important group of chemicals. They can form compounds, like amino acids, that are basic to life.
Don't judge a book by its cover, especially this one. One person I showed this book to thought it was a primary book - probably by Dr. Seuss. Another person couldn't understand why it was called The...