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Booklist - 04/01/2015 This picture book introduces the six senses of sharks. Waters offers good information about how sharks use their senses differently than humans and, in particular, about sharks’ “extra sixth sense . . . electroreception,” which helps them find their prey by sensing other animals’ electric fields. However, the text moves from one sense to the next without ever summing up all six. Also, some of the statements seem imprecise or odd, such as the notion that sharks don’t generally eat people, “because sharks know that people don’t live in their world.” In addition to reassuring children about shark attacks, the concluding pages note that these fish are endangered and need protection. An appended section presents true-or-false facts about sharks and a few suggestions for learning more about the subject. Created with cut-paper collage and pastels, Barner’s illustrations offer varied, colorful, and generally placid underwater scenes featuring different types of sharks, which are clearly identified. While the text could be stronger, kids will enjoy this attractive volume from the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. - Copyright 2015 Booklist.

School Library Journal - 06/01/2015 Gr 1–2—In this attractive picture book, Waters explains how sharks use six senses to great advantage. With distant touch, they detect minute changes in water current and temperature, and they hear vibrations over vast distances. With their gills, they smell underwater, and they can see in the dark. With nodes located in their throat and mouth, they can taste the animals they catch. Electroreception, sharks' unique sixth sense, enables them to detect creatures' electric fields, including the human heartbeat. The text employs useful, real-world examples. For instance, Waters compares a shark using electroreception to a beachcomber with a metal detector finding coins hidden under the sand. Spreads in bright yet gentle colors depict these animals and their prey, and the cut-paper collage illustrations soften the sharks' deadly actions. The introduction briefly addresses the threat of extinction as a result of human activities. Some anthropomorphizing ("big sharks could eat all the people they wanted…. But they don't, because sharks know that people don't live in their world.") detracts slightly from the information. VERDICT A suitable offering.—Frances E. Millhouser, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA - Copyright 2015 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

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