Heavily informational again. If used as a read aloud, I would only read bits and pieces at a time, and allow students to look at the pictures during reading time. ( )

With stunning, clean ocean photographs, this is a nice entry to the Scientists in the Field series, but it's not one of my favorites. Young marine biologists will snap it up, but I would have liked a bit more focus. The text meanders from seahorses to coral reefs to fishing practices and the photographs included meander along as well. Yes, all these things are connected, but maybe a subtitle or an introduction would have cleared up my expectations for the book. I just wanted more information and pictures of seahorses!

More on the blog: http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2010/07/project-seahorse.html ( )