Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story
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Big Fish is ancient and enormous. In her 177 years she's brushed against death more than once -- stalked by panners in the gold rush of 1858, nearly crushed in a rock slide in 1913, almost stranded when the lake drained into the river in 1924, and threatened by a mysterious disease that killed many other sturgeons in the early 1990s. Since then, sport fishers have hooked her several times, and she's led them through quite a chase. But today scientists...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1553653033
ISBN13:9781553653035
Release Date:February 2010
Publisher:Greystone Kids
Length:48 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 7.9" x 10.7"
Age Range:6 to 9 years
Grade Range:Grades 1 to 4
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Engaging fishy adventure spanning nearly two centuries.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Award-winning writer Maggie de Vries and prize-winning illustrator Renne Benoit present Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story, a children's picturebook about Big Fish, an ancient sturgeon nearly 177 years old who has dodged death many times, from drainage to disease to the threat of sports fishermen. Now laws protect her and her kind, and keep up hope that humans can help her species to survive. A fascinating tale about survival amid both natural and man-made dangers, Big Fish concludes with a handful of scientific and historic facts about sturgeon. A brief letter by Rick Hansen, chairman of the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society, rounds out this engaging fishy adventure spanning nearly two centuries.
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