Amazing Jellyfish: Mysterious Dweller of the Deep

(Hardback)

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The second title in the Amazing Ocean series is just as mind-blowing, inspiring and full of irreverent fun as the first. Filled with fascinating facts, activities and plenty of jokes, this book will take its young readers into the amazing world of the jellyfish and fill them with wonder at the natural world.

Reviews

'Even more informative, even more interactive, even more imaginative' - Kleine Zeitung

'A book to marvel at that ignites the desire for science' - MeinBezirk.at

'The playful approach makes the jellyfish book a real journey of discovery for children aged eight and over. The beautiful pictures also inspire younger readers' - Aachener Zeitung

'Michael Stavaric once again approaches a sea creature in an amusing, unusual and entertaining way... In accessible language, he explores its life, challenges the reader with facts and embellishes the whole thing up with stories, poems and jokes about jellyfish' - Wiener Journal

'An original mixture of knowledge, humour and wordplay' - Science.apa.at

Author Bio

Michael Stavaric was born in Brno in 1972 and works in Vienna as a freelance writer, translator and lecturer. He has received numerous scholarships and awards, including: LeseLenz Prize for Young Literature, Adelbert Chamisso Prize, Austrian State Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, Children's Book Prize of the City of Vienna, German Design Award, Wartholz Literature Prize and Hohenems Literature Prize. He would have liked to be a marine biologist and now he writes children's books, novels, plays and poetry. When he's not writing books, he spends his time making nature documentaries. Michele Ganser was born in Aachen in 1995 and studied communication design in Aachen and Mainz. She is particularly fascinated by space, the stars and the different planets. In her illustrations, she combines exciting topics in an unusual way and thus creates completely new worlds. In her free time she likes to read - preferably science fiction novels.