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Way to Glow! Amazing Creatures that Light Up in the Dark
From the darkest depths of the ocean you suddenly see a bright light... Learn how it's possible in this new book all about bioluminescent animals!
Featuring stunning photographs and information about the world's most fascinating bioluminescent animals (or animals that can produce their own light), this book will take readers deep into the depths of the ocean to discover everything there is to know about these incredible creatures. The photos and text will come to life with the latest glow in the dark technology to mimic how the animals really glow!
Featuring stunning photographs and information about the world's most fascinating bioluminescent animals (or animals that can produce their own light), this book will take readers deep into the depths of the ocean to discover everything there is to know about these incredible creatures. The photos and text will come to life with the latest glow in the dark technology to mimic how the animals really glow!
48 pages, Hardcover
First published December 29, 2015
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About the author
Lisa Regan
511Ìýbooks59ÌýfollowersLisa Regan has written over 400 published titles, including picture books, puzzle books, children's reference and curriculum-linked workbooks. She lives in Colchester, UK, with her sons and husband.
Her work ranges from magazine-style books on fashion and sleepovers, to highly illustrated STEM titles that fit into schools and libraries lists. Her favourite topics are wildlife and geography, but she also has huge fun writing rhyming tales.
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Her work ranges from magazine-style books on fashion and sleepovers, to highly illustrated STEM titles that fit into schools and libraries lists. Her favourite topics are wildlife and geography, but she also has huge fun writing rhyming tales.
Librarian's note: There is more than one author in the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ database with this name.
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January 30, 2016
Stunning photographs of various animals that are bioluminscent are featured in this eye-popping book. Readers will be thrilled to see animals such as the firefly with its pulsing light and the click beetle as well as various seldom-seen marine life, including the hatchet fish, the sea pen, the bobtail squid, and the lanternfish. Some pages even contain a feature that allows readers to see the light on the various species when the lights are turned out. It will be hard to get this one out of the hands of elementary and intermediate readers, especially since it contains such short bits of information such as how soldiers during WWI used glowworms to bring light to the trenches where they had to remain during the war.
October 28, 2016
I also read Glow, which is honestly a more artfully done book with better pictures. This book is a little louder and kind of in your face, with some pages that actually glow in the dark which I thought was pretty awesome! It has facts on each of the animals pictured that children should find interesting including "Did you know" bubble for each organism. This book is fun and engaging and I think kids will get a kick out of the glow and the dark pages. I also liked that it had a glossary and a table of contents. Over all a great addition to any children's library.
October 16, 2017
A great book with some awesome photos and cool facts about lesser known bioluminescent creatures of the ocean. My 7 year boy loved it and had a lot of fun charging up the pages and turning off the lights to see it.
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February 17, 2017Nonfiction/Twin Text Entry #2
Way to Glow! is an informational non-fiction book and on each page there is a large image of an animal that glows in the dark and many of the animals are sea creatures. While the aren't very dense, the print is pretty small, and the vocabulary is somewhat advanced, so I think the target audience would be late elementary school or intermediate. I chose The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister as the twin text for this book, because so many of the animals listed in Way to Glow! looked like fish and creatures in the Rainbow Fish. I grew up reading the Rainbow Fish, and although I hadn't thought about it until now, I imagine that the Rainbow Fish's special scales did seem as if they glowed in the dark a bit.
Way to Glow! is an informational non-fiction book and on each page there is a large image of an animal that glows in the dark and many of the animals are sea creatures. While the aren't very dense, the print is pretty small, and the vocabulary is somewhat advanced, so I think the target audience would be late elementary school or intermediate. I chose The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister as the twin text for this book, because so many of the animals listed in Way to Glow! looked like fish and creatures in the Rainbow Fish. I grew up reading the Rainbow Fish, and although I hadn't thought about it until now, I imagine that the Rainbow Fish's special scales did seem as if they glowed in the dark a bit.
February 14, 2016
*I received a free copy of this book from the publisher through my district library services*
The glow-in-the-dark feature of this book will be enough to attract readers, but the cool photos should hold their attention. Each two page spread has a paragraph or two about a sea creature with some kind of light or bioluminescence, along with a "Did you know" factoid. Kids will enjoy poring over this book and learning a little about a number of interesting sea creatures. There is some challenging vocabulary, but a glossary in the back defines many of the tougher words, so readers may also pick up some new words.
The glow-in-the-dark feature of this book will be enough to attract readers, but the cool photos should hold their attention. Each two page spread has a paragraph or two about a sea creature with some kind of light or bioluminescence, along with a "Did you know" factoid. Kids will enjoy poring over this book and learning a little about a number of interesting sea creatures. There is some challenging vocabulary, but a glossary in the back defines many of the tougher words, so readers may also pick up some new words.
April 17, 2016
Do I really need two books on bioluminescence in my library? Yes! I recently read and enjoyed Glow, which was quietly stunning. This one is loud and in your face, fact-filled, some enclosed in "air" bubbles, each example of bioluminescence gets a double-page spread. But wait, there's more! If the page number is surrounded by a star, and the reader holds the page to a light source for 30 seconds, then retreats to a darkened space...glow in the dark effects. And, yeah, it's pretty cool. Unfamiliar words are colored yellow and defined in a short glossary at the end of the book. My only complaint? No source notes, just photo credits smooshed on the title page.
May 15, 2016
3-8.
Scholastic knows exactly how to put together a fantastically browsable book which kids will be fighting over.
Scholastic knows exactly how to put together a fantastically browsable book which kids will be fighting over.
March 12, 2016
The glow in the dark really make these animals pop off the page. Primarily sea creatures.
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