Although readers who’ve navigated Miranda Krestovnikoff’s Ocean: Exploring Our Blue Planet, illustrated by Jill Calder (2020), or any of the various like ventures will discover the territory and content material acquainted, the professor’s enthusiasm (“KNOWLEDGE AWAITS!”) and Newman’s busy, blocky scenes of sea life and landforms lend additional vim to the journey. There are bits of comedy and facet commentary, however usually the members of the bright-eyed animal crew acquainted from earlier expeditions are all enterprise, asking main questions or pointing considerably to underscore the professor’s neat, legible blocks of observations and explanations. After first gathering on the seashore for a have a look at tides, tide swimming pools, and erosion, the explorers dive for shut appears at various habitats from kelp forests to shipwrecks, with occasional pauses to check broad subjects like meals webs or plate tectonics. Following encounters with whales and sharks, fish, birds, and dozens of different marine denizens at each depth, the voyagers land on the Galápagos Islands, cut up as much as go to the poles, regather for fast ganders at how oceans are being threatened and guarded, then shut out with a remaining spray of “Factoroids”: “Extra individuals have stepped on the floor of the Moon than have been to the Mariana Trench.”
