Ocean Animals - Hardcover

by Lisa Caprelli (Author), Davey Villalobos (Illustrator)

Explore fun facts about 26 favorite ocean animals! Each page is a riddle and a haiku poem. This book also comes with a song called HAIKU SONG by singer/actress, Emily Isabel available on all major music platforms!

In this Unicorn Jazz series, along with her animal friends from previous books in the series, take a trip to the beach where they spend the day learning about all the many types of sea creatures that roam in our vast oceans. From jellyfish and corals to whales and sharks, Unicorn Jazz and friends uncover the most fascinating aspects of the underwater world throughout their adventure.

The Earth is made up of two-thirds water, from our oceans. So marine life matters to us all. Introduce kids to a fun way of learning about ocean animals. With hand-drawn art throughout, this is a Unicorn Jazz children's unicorn book series, loved by kids and adults!

Award-winning author of the children's unicorn book series, Lisa Caprelli has created this captivating children's book on aquatic wildlife. Ocean Animals for kids brings marine biology with the sparkle of Unicorn Jazz picture book characters to life under the sea.

Ocean Animals is a fun, colorful exploration of sea life and poetry. Young readers will learn about various underwater creatures through creative haiku and beautiful illustrations.

This book comes with free BEYOND THE BOOK activity pages for teachers, parents and kids. The Common Core State Standards encourage children to learn about poem structure, rhythm and patterns by Grade 4. Ocean Animals is a great resource for teaching these concepts as well as other topics such as oceanography and marine biology.

The Ocean Animals free activity pages (ask for them at UnicornJazz.com) were designed to meet learning standards (CCSS and NGSS) such as:

Recognize common types of texts (storybooks, poems)

Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter)

Describe how words and phrases (regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events

Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live. Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Two-thirds of our planet is made of water! Join best-selling Unicorn Jazz(TM) and friends in Ocean Animals book. Each page provides riddles in the form of haiku poems. A fun picture book to discover 26 kinds of wondrous fish, dolphins, whales, sharks, and sea creatures that are part of our planet!

Not only does Ocean Animals offer children valuable material regarding the various sea animals that make up our oceans, it also provides insight as to how they matter in the big picture of our global environment through poetic expression.

The oceanic world is a big place (more than twice the size of all the land on Earth combined!), so Unicorn Jazz and friends have a ton of sea creatures to meet!

Out of all the ocean animals you discover - and the facts you unravel about them on your very first Unicorn Jazz underwater adventure - which sea creature will be your favorite that you want to know more of? Learn things beyond shark for kids who like shark book for kids, shark book for children, shark for kids, turtle book for kids, whale book and more!

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