The Bonkers Book of Deep Sea Facts

In the deep ocean, glowing is normal and not glowing is unusual.

The sun never arrives down there. So most of the animals did the obvious thing and built their own light.

There’s a fish with a transparent head, its eyes looking up through its own clear forehead. There are squid and shrimp that squirt a glowing cloud instead of dark ink, because a burst of light blinds a predator just as well as a blot of blackness would in daylight. And when a great whale dies and sinks, its body feeds an entire neighborhood of creatures on the seafloor for decades.

The Bonkers Book of Deep Sea Facts collects 400+ of these, and none of them are made up.

Plenty to dive into

• Over 400 facts and big questions, packed five to a page across full-color comic-style pages built to be flipped through, stared at, and read out of order.
• Sharks, whales, squid, glowing monsters, coral reefs, and hydrothermal vents, right down to the crushing dark at the bottom.
• The book descends as you read it, from the shore down to the trenches and back up again.
• Straight answers to the big ones: what’s at the very bottom, what the pressure would do to you, and why so much of it glows.
• Written for ages 6–12, with plenty for grown-ups to be startled by too.

For the kid who wants to know what’s down there

Facts with actual punchlines, not just exclamation points. Looking for an ocean book for a child who leans in at the weird stuff? This illustrated fact book puts their favorite subject at the center of reading and discovery.

Fair warning: bath time is about to get a lot more interesting.