A 3-D tour of the oceans with an emphasis on the sensational. From fairly benign tide pools and open sea, the Santoros take readers to the midnight zone (a toothy anglerfish leers in the central pop-up), coral reefs (a great white shark hurls itself through the branching formation) and Antarctica (a leopard seal pursues a penguin, unaware of the orca about to chomp on it). Ranged round the central pop-ups are short paragraphs of related facts, which are supplemented by slide-out tabs covered with further information. Readers who stop to peruse these will pick up a fair amount. “Green sea turtles are a species so ancient that it witnessed the extinction of the dinosaurs”; “Antarctic cod produce proteins that act as antifreeze to lower the freezing point of their blood.” A showy introduction to a fascinating subject. (Pop-up nonfiction. 6-10)
