100 Things to Know About the Oceans

 Shirley J.            Youth Non-Fiction                 Facts about the oceans, sea life and maritime info.

100 Things to Know About the Oceans by Alex Frith, Minna Lacey, Alice James, Shaw Nielsen Dominique Byron, and Dale Edwin Murray   128 pages

Fascinating book that will really open your environmental eyes when you read there are more pieces of plastic in the ocean than there are stars in the galaxy!  It also talks about the floating islands of plastic debris floating in the oceans there are two maybe more.  One is 5x the size of France!  This debris traps sea life drowning them and there are over 5,000 plastic fish nets abandoned in the seas by fishermen that also trap and drown sea life.   There are subjects where the reader is asked questions about various topics and what the reader thinks the best answer would be when sometimes more than one answer could be correct and sometimes is.   There is survival on the ocean info here, background on sea creatures all the way down to single cell ones.   There is mysterious information shared on the vents in the ocean that produce toxic molten temps from underwater volcanoes and so much more.  This is a treasure trove of information and so interesting.  I recommend this to second graders on up to senior citizens especially to the environmentally conscious and those who love the ocean above and below.