Ocean Atlas

As soon as I saw the cover of this book, I was so excited to check it out. My daughter has a huge interest in all things wildlife/nature and when she gets a little older, this will be a perfect choice for her to read. Does a child in your life love the Ocean? Or want to learn more about wildlife that frequent in or around a body of water? This is absolutely the book for them! The illustrations are beautiful and detailed in a way that is broken down so well for younger audiences. It teaches a whole host of vocabulary words, describes animals and other wildlife, discusses the ocean habitat and even lets you take a journey below the sea! Volcanoes, hurricanes, tsunamis are covered as well as protecting ocean life and climate change.

There isn't a thing I would change about this book and it could be used for recreational reading as well as future school projects.

Thank you so much to Netgalley, Quarto Publishing Group – QEB Publishing and Tom Jackson for the opportunity to read and provide an honest review of this amazing book.

Review Date: 04/29/2020
Publication Date: 08/18/2020

Naming the seas, telling of their structures, and something of the different levels of life we might find in them – this is very much a geography book for the school library. And it's a very good one, too – the structure of the pages is a fine one, with much more information than those books that splurge factoids all over a spread with no clear reading order. Still, the design is always child-friendly, and nothing seems too off-putting, so everyone can be made aware of thermal vents, bioluminescence, marine snow, and tsunamis. This will be welcome stuff to all educators. Four and a half stars.

This was a great book. I absolutely loved the illustrations. I sat and read this with my 8 year old step son. It was full of information about al of the oceans and animals. Easy to understand for a child as well. Such a great reference book. Cute, easy to understand, and relatable for kids.

Did you know that we have better maps of the Moon and Mars than we do of our own seabed! Yes. this and many other curious, interesting, amazing and occasionally shocking facts await you in this fantastic Ocean Atlas. I read it with such pleasure and will be buying copies of this wonderful book to give to my friends' small children.

Fantastic book beautifully illustrated!

A beautiful atlas about oceans! I loved the colorful illustrations and variety of facts contained within this fascinating text. This would be a great reference for older elementary school aged children.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

Ocean Atlas: A journey across the waves and into the deep by Tom Jackson and illustrated by Ana Djordjevic is a book for elementary and early middle school aged students that does a great job in providing an overview of many different ocean topics, such as geography, currents, ecosystems, ocean layers, hurricanes, tsunamis and conservation. Each page is perfectly balanced with a beautiful background illustration and the well organized, fact boxes will not overwhelm students. The chapters are structured so they build upon each other providing more in depth information the farther into the book you get. The glossary in the back makes it very student friendly. It is a fantastic reference book to have in your library and will draw students into the exciting world of oceanography.

This is a really fabulous book, beautifully written and illustrated. Perfect for the library and classroom....I shall be ordering copies.

Packed full of tons of information about the oceans and much more! Recommend to any one who’s children enjoy learning about oceans or anything relating to that. You can learn so much by reading this book and there is also lots of great pictures and illustrations included.
Thank you to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group – QEB Publishing for a copy of this advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest review.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A vibrant, colourful celebration of oceans and seas around the globe. Filled with fascinating facts, scientific terminology and fun creatures of the deep, this book will expand your horizons to see what is under all the water on our planet.
Maps, distances and depths are all recorded as well as facts about explorers discovering lands, shipwrecks and important geological features. Learn about the Mariana Trench, Magellan and submarines that explore the depths.

My children and I pored over every detail in this book and there is plenty to look at on each page. A remarkable book and one I suspect will be very popular.

I’d like to thank Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group – QEB Publishing for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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If you're anything like me you know will LOVE books that allow you to say... "did you know...?" I have always been a huge fan of non-fiction books that are colourful and allow the reader to engage without churning out lists of facts like some sort of robot, and here we have exactly that! A non-fiction book for children aged between 6-12 which is colourful, filled to the brim with facts and also explains a lot about our planet and it's most important resource: the ocean.



What I loved...
More than anything I really enjoyed looking at the pictures when I was reading this. I know that a few people may roll their eyes at that but I do think children's books should be colourful and illustrated well. Ocean Atlas delivers this in a vibrant and exciting way and allows for the reader to explore different elements of our oceans and seas. This is also paired up with short bursts of facts which will hold the attention of any reader - from those who are having the book read to them to those who have become independent readers!



What I'd like more of...
As much as I loved the colour and the illustrations, this book does lack some photographs which I think would help younger readers understand and picture real things. For example it is difficult trying to explain and show what certain marine life looks like but pictures would help with this.


All in all I really enjoyed this book and loved that it has so many different topics to talk about and well as touch upon marine conservation and the importance of looking after our seas. I great book to add to a childrens library.

This book will be published 18th August 2020 - pre-order it here.
4/5 Stars - read it again and again!
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Immediately what drew me to this book was it's beautiful cover and illustrations. It is a good text to picture ratio and is well organized with a table of contents and glossary. The glossary is a great addition, as well.

As a scuba diver myself, I think this would be a great book to get kids interested in the sport and also the oceans and all of their creatures.This seems like a great resource for a child's library and I intend to add it to ours. I would love if there were others like this.

Thanks to the author Tom Jackson, the publisher QEB, and Netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is a brilliant colourful book all about the ocean. I liked how full of information this book is, its split in to different sections about different parts of the ocean. Children will really enjoy this book because it is so informative. Thank you for the opportunity to review this book.

Ocean Atlas by Tom Jackson was beautifully illustrated. My daughters loved the colourful, bright and informative pages.

On first glance this book might be a bit intimidating as the sheer amount of knowledge is incredible however, mixed in with brightly coloured and informative images the book is well thought out. I was pleasantly surprised to read about the volcanoes and their part in the ocean.

I would recommend this to any young child with a love for the ocean and a thirst for knowledge. This book would also be brilliant in schools and also for adults who wish to learn more.

Such a cool book! We are going to order a paper copy. I see myself using this for homeschooling curriculum for years! Excellent material, great illustrations and very interesting facts,

This guide to the oceans (and all the fun things you find in there) is AMAZING! I can't say enough about the beautiful pictures/graphics and facts. This was easy to share with both of my children, but I would encourage a parent to be present, for children under 8-10, as it is a lot process on their own.

I would absolutely love a physical copy of this book, so we can continue to read through it and revisit some of the oceans/animals.

Thanks for this copy!

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This book is a fantastic resource for any library and will certainly be a handy book to have during geography projects!

The book starts out naming the oceans and giving facts and information about each ocean even down to how they got their names.

I can't think of anything that could have been included in this book that wasn't already and the illustrations are beautiful and really compliment the book.

I learnt so much from this book that I didn’t already know so children will certainly learn from it, plus each section of the book isn't heavily written about which makes reading it, absorbing it and learning from it a joy.

I was impressed by the beauty and great amount of information provided in this book. A great addition to a homeschool library and great for all ages Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for my digital review copy.

A really good ocean atlas for younger readers. Sometimes books call themselves atlases then don't cover enough information to really count BUT this is not one of those!

This Ocean Atlas covers all aspects of the the ocean and each section has enough information to really make it worthwhile. It is strictly scientific but still very approachable, bright and easy to understand. The illustrations and color keep everything light and fun and I would certainly encourage this for all young readers with an interest in the ocean. This is a great atlas to have for schools and libraries. I find this ocean atlas to be VERY valuable! From the deep ocean to the the light zone (yay plankton!) there is so much to learn from this gem!

This is such a cool book! I learned a lot of this book. Also, the illustrations are really well done. This is the perfect book for kids who want to learn more about the ocean. It has the perfect balance of a good amount of information, but not that there is an overload of it. It's very entertaining, and even as a (almost) adult I wanted to keep on reading this book, which is rare for a non-fiction book for me. Would recommend for anyone!

A fascinating book about oceans with infographic maps, colorful illustrations and photos. I enjoyed reading the book. It was like a fun dive in the ocean of informations regarding oceans.