Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau (edition 2008)

This has become one of my favorite books. While the topic is dear to my heart, I absolutely love the illustrations with no other explanation of why than that they are just my style. I love the color usage of both the images and the text. I like the simplistic shapes and forms of the people and background images. I like the use of page formats. I just adore it. This is another book to use when talking about science and reaching goals. ( )

Chickadee nominee 2009-2010. I thought it was a bit wordy. ( )

This is a wonderful concise biography of Jacques Cousteau. It captures his love for life and his childlike curiousity for everything. This could be used with the younger grades because of its format, and the older grades as well. There arre lots of facts in it but there are also great illustrations.

Jaques Cousteau always dreamed of being able to swim in the sea with out have to come up for air. He invented the Aqua Lung to help him do so. He explored the sea and filmed what he saw to shown other people. He then starts to seen something sad happen. The fish are beginning to die because of the chemicals and garbage that is being dumped in the water. ( )

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau is written by Jennifer Berne and illustrated by Eric Puybaret. It tells the life of underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau from his childhood love of facisnation, the invention of the aqualung, and career spent discovering life underwater and advocating for better care of the oceans. This book is beautifully illustrated with such deep and vivid colors. I think that I would use this book to begin discussing different types of explorers (not just land explorers like Lewis and Clark or Columbus) and also different inventors. I think this book would be appropriate for students in grades 1-4. It would be a nice mentor text for students learning about writing biographies. ( )