Nonfiction Fishing

In Nerdy Babies: Ocean, follow our intrepid infants into the watery depths. Check out animals, plants, and fish that live in the ocean. Plus, learn about the unique ecosystem in this simple text written in question-and-answer format.

Hi, there! I'm a narwhal. You might not have seen me because I am very mysterious, but I bet you recognize my tusk! Learn more about my life cycle and how I went from a calf to the unicorn of the sea.

On July 1, 1916, witnesses watched in horror as twenty-eight-year-old Charles Vansant was attacked and killed by a shark in shallow water off Beach Haven, New Jersey—the first recorded shark attack in American history. Scientists claimed a shark could not be responsible, but more deadly attacks soon followed along the Jersey Shore and up the freshwater Matawan Creek, setting off a nationwide panic that led the White House to declare a “War on Sharks.”

I live in a den and hunt my prey with venom. Zoom with me across the sea. I am a common octopus, and I have lots of things to show you!

Sea stars, or starfish, are amazing creatures! They can regenerate limbs and even use seawater as blood! Learn what they eat and how they survive in the big ocean.

Presenting crabs, shrimp, lobsters, barnacles, and krill! Covering all the basic topics, including habitat, anatomy, and diet, Crustaceans allows kids to get up close and learn all about these hard-shelled marine animals.

In 2002, a young orca was discovered near Seattle - lost, alone, and 300 miles away from home. Six months later she was rescued, rehabilitated and reunited with her family on the north end of Vancouver Island. Today Springer is thriving, with two calves of her own. It's the only successful orca reunion in history!

Lift your tail and splash the water! It's time to share a day up close with a narwhal. See this whale's watery home, what it eats, and how it cares for its young.

Manatees are huge sea mammals. These big, wrinkly creatures are strong, but swim through the ocean slowly. Learn all about these amazing mammals.

Strap on scuba gear and feast your eyes on the intricate and stunning world under the ocean. Identify bumps on a humpback whale or count the number of arms on an octopus. Compare speeds of sea horses and great white sharks or find out what eats sea stars and crabs. Young listeners will learn about specific animals and all that makes them unique in this informative series!

Dive under the waves with some of the ocean's most fascinating fish. From teeth to tail, learn what makes sharks so incredible. The engaging STEM topic makes this set perfect for budding marine biologists and adventure-seekers alike. You're about to get shark shocked! This volume includes Great White Shark, Hammerhead Shark, and Mako Shark.

Orcas Everywhere looks at how humans around the world (Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike) related to orcas in the past, how we relate to them now, and what we can do to keep cetacean communities alive and thriving. Writer, filmmaker, and orca activist Mark Leiren-Young takes us back to when killer whales were considered monsters, and examines how humans went from using orcas for target practice to nearly loving them to death.

Everyone knows that fish swim. But are there fish that fly? You have questions and this book has the answers. Find out about the lives of certain fish and their unique abilities to move through the water.

Follow the lives of animals under the sea as they hunt for food and defend their territories. This volume includes Sea Horses, Sea Otters, Sea Slugs, Sea Turtles, Sharks, and Squids.

In March of that year, two pygmy sperm whales got trapped between a sandbar and the beach and couldn’t get back to the ocean. Several concerned people were unable to help the whales—until Moko came along. Dive in and learn all about the heroic dolphin who helped lead two distressed whales back to the safety of the sea.

Have you ever wondered just how a glow stick works? Or what about those glow-in-the-dark stars you stick on your ceiling keep on shining? In her first book, author and teacher Anita Sitarski answers these questions and more giving listeners the inside scoop on everything that glows. Fireflies, bacteria, squid, jelly fish—what do all of these things have in common? They glow! It seems like one of mother nature’s mysteries, but many curious scientists have begun to shine light on this beautiful phenomenon.

In Octopus Ocean, discover the mysteries and histories of octopuses big and small—their biology, habitat and habits—and explore the top threats to their future, including warming oceans, over-fishing and pollution.

As dolphins flip, whirling through blue waters and creating bubbles with their dorsal fins, scientists study if this playful act is fun and not just instinctual behavior, or as some marine psychologists believe, that porpoises practice hunting skills.

This is the story of Bud n' Mary's Marina in Islamorada, Florida Keys. For more than a century sportsmen and women have been coming to the Keys to enjoy the beautiful weather and world class fishing. Bud n' Mary's Marina is at the center of the universe for Keys marinas. Many world record catches have been made out of Bud n' Mary's, and the roster of guides, captains, anglers, and celebrities operating out of that marina is a Who's Who of sport fishing. Called the "Sportsfishing Capitol of the World," the action out of Bud n' Mary's is unmatched anywhere in the world. Unique to this marina ...

Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was determined to experiment on living animals. And to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, she had to invent a contraption to hold them: the aquarium.