Under the Ocean

by Paul Bennett

Published 26 June 1999
This absorbing new series for older children explores different world regions and the people and other creatures that inhabit them. Vivid full-color photos, maps, and diagrams.

The earth's ocean environment is at least as complex as any on land. Its living creatures range in size from whales to plankton -- drifting plants and animals of nearly microscopic size -- and from fast-swimming dolphins to stationary coral.


The Hospitable Desert

by Paul Bennett

Published 26 June 1999
This absorbing new series for older children explores different world regions and the people and other creatures that inhabit them. Vivid full-color photos, maps, and diagrams.

Here is a look at many desert plants and animals in different parts of the world -- scorpions, fennecs (desert foxes), vipers, lizards, camels, dromedaries, and many others.