The Big Book of the Blue (The Big Book Series) Hardcover – Picture Book, June 5, 2018

Very pretty book! The drawings are so nice. My child loves it a lot.

The media could not be loaded. The illustrations in this book are so beautiful. There are a few sections that review different aspects of sea creatures (fins and flippers for example) and then there are 2ish pages each dedicated to a variety of different sea creatures - some well known, others less so. There are 4-6 facts included about each of the different animals featured. The authors also included a search and find aspect, so there is a sardine hiding on something like 14 different pages, plus they ask you to find certain things on specific pages. That has been a fun activity for my 4yo to stay excited and engaged.This is not a story, just facts and illustrations about sea creatures. We typically pick a few pages at a time to read through, then do some of the seek and find activities. My 2yo and 4yo are both ocean lovers and they cannot get enough of this book. There's so much to see and learn, I can see us enjoying it for years to come.

My 3 year old son really loves this book. The illustrations are fun and eye catching, and the facts are short and interesting, which is perfect for his age. There is a visual index and he likes to refer to that index to pick a page to read. We have owned the book for probably a month and he asks us to read it every night before bed. He already had an interest in ocean animals, but I feel like this book really has held his interest enough that I was motivated to buy “The Big Book of Bugs.” It’s a long book with lots of info, so a very good value for the cost. I have read it in one sitting once and it took about an hour to get through the whole book.

This book has SO many great facts about ocean animals. It was teaching my 8 year old, my husband, and I all fun facts...and we had FUN learning! The illustrations are colorful and fun. We have re-read this book many times and it never gets old. WELL WORTH EVERY PENNY. Honestly. I bought the other bug, bird, beast books from this series because of this book and they are all excellent...but this one is our absolute favorite! 100/10. ;)

obsessed with this book and so are my kids. such a great book and great pictures

The book has great pictures and it’s filled with age appropriate information for little learners

I wanted to expand on an ocean section in my son’s science textbook in a fun way, which led me to this. However, I wasn’t sold until I saw it had a sticker book companion. As much as I loved the quick and easy fun-filled facts on every page, I didn’t feel I could get him to sit still long enough without a related activity to excite him about the information. I liked that it involved no writing (but you are excoriated to doodle if you want) and included the stickers correlating with exactly what I was reading. We have done 1 a day and have about 5 days left until we finish the sticker book. This was such a great learning tool and so much fun for both of us. I plan to get the sticker book again when my next child enters kindergarten and look into the other books in the series for other mini units in the next school year.Observations I noticed: the reading book has a few more pages than the correlating pages in the sticker book offer. The sticker book does not follow the sequence of the reading book’s table of contents. Lastly, it wasn’t clear until we almost finished, but many of the fish stickers are extras to be used with the themes of the pages like “whales” and “jellyfish” etc and do not get their own page.

Grandson loved it. Quality looks good!