title: Oceans: The Vast, Mysterious Deep (Earth Works)
author:  David L. Harrison 
description: Kindergarten-Grade 3-This colorful offering provides a glance at the oceans of the world, their creation, the cycle of the Earth's water supply, the polar regions, and the Marianas Trench. Also discussed are waves, including tsunamis and the volcanic action that creates them; the effect of wind on water; the Gulf Stream; and tides. Some animal life is presented, although not much-the blue whale, three identified sea animals among a plethora of others illustrated in the reef spread, and pictures of four bottom fish that are rarely seen. The text ends with a plea for humans to take better care of the oceans and their animals and plants. The writing is more factoidal than discursive and the book's organization can be a challenge. Still, the art is engaging, and this title could inspire a deeper exploration of the subject.<br /><i>Dona Ratterree, New York City Public Schools </i><br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Edge of the World
  
  The world was a giant disc, slowly expanding its outer ridge in all
  directions. It begins with a darkness blacker than night, a color so dense it
  would suck an onlooker into a trance simply by glancing at it. Those that
  stood for too long at the edge of the world and look across the edge had a
  feeling of falling, or being pulled into, a dark vortex.
  
  There was a line that separated the known world and this unknown, and drawing
  back from that was a dark grey and black ocean that pulsed with energy.
  Flashes of light extend into the crimson red sky as the waters poured
  violently at the rocky beaches. When the high tide of this electricity
  occurred, the waters bubbled over with excitement, and from its rising mounds
  of water came tentacles, hands, and faces of all types. They extend into
  bodies, sometimes hard as armor, sometimes soft as mud, that encroached on the
  shore and introduced themselves to their new home with great cries and the
  waving of 