read Planet Ocean: Why We All Need A Healthy Ocean
Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean
by Patricia Newman
Photographs by Annie Crawley
Millbrook Press, 2021
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PLANET OCEAN Why We All Need A Healthy Ocean book is available now! Be the first to own this new title by Sibert Honor author Patricia Newman and award winning photographer/filmmaker Annie Crawley.
A little more than 70 percent of Planet Earth is ocean. So wouldn’t a better name for our global home be Planet Ocean? You may be surprised at just how closely YOU are connected to the ocean. Regardless of where you live, every breath you take and every drop of water you drink links you to the ocean. And because of this connection, the ocean’s health affects all of us. Dive in with author Patricia Newman and photographer Annie Crawley—visit the Coral Triangle near Indonesia, the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic Ocean at the top of the world. Find out about problems including climate change, ocean acidification, and plastic pollution. Meet inspiring local people who are leading the way to reverse the ways in which humans have harmed the ocean. Planet Ocean shows us how to stop thinking of ourselves as existing separate from the ocean and how to start taking better care of this precious resource. (ISBN-13: 978-1-5415-8121-0 $31.99; Grades have 4-8) Planet Ocean, Why We All Need A Health Ocean is available now at your local independent retailer, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, iTunes, or order a personalized copy directly from photographer Annie Crawley.
Says Annie: “One of the greatest things about scuba diving is discovering the other 70% of our planet. I'm ecstatic to bring our ocean to life and share what scientists, kids, and teens are doing around the world to help the ocean. We need to change our relationship with how we treat the life source of our planet.”
Teacher resources available now. A playlist called Planet Ocean Book is available on www.YouTube.com/AnnieCrawley
Annie Crawley, CEO of Dive Into Your Imagination, has spent the past 20 years living and working around the world. As an award winning producer, photographer and motivational speaker, Annie photographs and produces programs about life on our planet. Trained as a journalist, her recent work includes multi-media ocean events, keynote speaking, books, films, cartoon characters from the Adventures of Ocean Annie series, and a series of eBooks designed for the iPad® available on the iBookstore.
Annie is a member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame, a PADI Ambassadiver, and Master Scuba Diver Trainer. She runs a scuba diving team in Edmonds, WA and teaches science, photography, and so much more to kids and teens. As the founder of Dive Into Your Imagination, her mission is to promote an understanding about ecological systems to create a sustainable human relationship for a healthy Ocean. Dive Into Your Imagination is changing the way the next generation views the ocean and themselves. Annie is available for interviews and speaking engagements. Contact us today. Text/Call: 805-453-1947 or visit www.AnnieCrawley.com
Author Patricia Newman's books inspire young readers to seek connections to the real world. Her titles encourage readers to use their imaginations to solve real world problems and act on behalf of their communities. These books include Sibert Honor title Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem; Junior Library Guild Selection Eavesdropping on Elephants; Bank Street College Best Book Zoo Scientists to the Rescue; Booklist Editor's Choice Ebola: Fears and Facts; and Green Earth Book Award winner Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Patricia frequently speaks at schools and conferences to share how children of any age can affect change. Visit her at www.patriciamnewman.com.
Reviews
♥ Junior Library Guild Selection
“Books like this one help lead the way to a better climate future for all inhabitants of Mother Earth. We are all in this together!
Planet Ocean educates and activates children and young people to be activists and stewards of the environment. The content of this book combined with the fabulous photography gives children insight into the amazing world of our ocean planet, above and beneath the water. I was introduced to the beauty and importance of the world’s oceans by my father Lloyd Bridges who starred on the tv series Sea Hunt. He impressed upon me the importance of protecting and preserving the ocean as a critical part of the ecosystem.
Global warming and acidification of the seas continues to threaten reefs around the world including the great barrier reef. There are major environmental challenges we must face within our waters ways, oceans and arctic regions. There are ways to get involved, to make a real impact through organizations and policies that focus on change. Now more than ever our personal actions and ideas can create structural changes that can make a real difference, a real impact on turning this pollution thing around. The future of the planet’s health is in our hands. What we leave behind is critical for future generations.
Read Planet Ocean with your children and grandchildren to begin the discussion of what humans can do to save our oceans from pollution and acidification. Books like this one help lead the way to a better climate future for all inhabitants of mother earth.” — Jeff Bridges, Academy Award winner and environmentalist
“A compelling and paramount read for all mankind so that we value our ocean resource.” –Christine Anne Royce, Ed.D., Retiring President (19-20), National Science Teaching Association; Professor of Teacher Education and Co-Director of MAT in STEM Education, Shippensburg University
“The range of nationalities represented and the inclusion of a variety of Indigenous voices make a particularly compelling argument that ocean health is a whole world problem…Worth exploring in depth.” —Kirkus
Explore three regions of Planet Ocean: the Coral Triangle, the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic.
Hooded nudibranchs in the Salish Sea are an amazing animal species found in the Pacific Northwest.