By Gerry Bailey Published by Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2008 Series: Simply science.
'Sea transportation' is a dip into aspects of sea transport for students in middle primary school, but it would also be an interesting book for older, less able readers. I found the layout eye catching and absorbing - the simple text boxes and cartoon style illustrations used on most pages lend it a graphic style that is popular with children. It has a contents page, glossary and index, which makes it useful for information literacy work.
The book covers topics often not mentioned in books about boats. For example, there is a section on floating and sinking that leads into the concepts of density and displacement, there is a brief run down on the importance of navigation and rudders, and there are several pages on travelling under the sea - submarines, bathyscapes and submersibles.
I found two very minor problems with the book . Fighting ships (pages 28-29) - I think might have been better presented in chronological order, and the map of the world (page 18-19) does not include New Zealand. We seem to have fallen off the edge of the picture!
The other seven titles in the Simply Science series are Communication, Energy, Land Transportation, Simple Machines, Light and Colour, Space, and Weather.
Reviewed by Heather
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