Sea Creatures: A Squirmy, Scary, Prickly Pop-Up

Catch the weirdest, scariest, and most fascinating sea creatures without getting your feet wet! Vibrant color pop-ups of a shark, lion fish, giant squid, devil ray, sea dragon, and viper fish leap off the page. Sea Creatures Pop-up brings water fun to everyone!

Catch the weirdest, scariest, and most fascinating sea creatures without getting your feet wet! Vibrant color pop-ups of a shark, lion fish, giant squid, devil ray, sea dragon, and viper fish leap off the page. Sea Creatures Pop-up brings water fun to everyone!

Children's Literature

This large pop-up book also says on the cover, "Squirmy, Scary, Prickly Creatures from the Deep." Think of the most terrifying residents of the ocean, and here they are, with their frightening faces leaping at you from pages that measure 11 by 19 inches. Some of them are so large they not only leap out of the pages, they leap above and below the pages, teeth first. The cast of characters is impressive—a green sea dragon, an orange lionfish, a tiger shark, a devil ray, a giant squid, and a viper fish. Waving lines of text accompany each creature. "If the seaweed is staring right back at you,/If fronds brush your arm like a leaf,/If a head like a horse makes you screech till you're hoarse,/ Then you are probably facing a sea dragon!" More boys than girls will likely enjoy this impressive production. Reviewer: Eleanor Heldrich

Sally Hewitt has written many books for children on science and nature. She lives in Great Britain.

Chris Gilvan-Cartwright studied at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, and has a postgraduate degree in fine art painting from the Krakow Academy of Fine Art, in Poland. Booklist called his work “vivid”; it has won many awards and has been exhibited internationally. He lives in Great Britain.