"The lucid text and the elegant illustrations march in perfect step, creating an attractive fusing of art and information. - School Library Journal Well focused text describes shark anatomy, features and habit sand introduces a number of different species - Booklist"

Laurence Pringle has written more than ninety books for children and young adults. He has always been interested in the natural world and studied wildlife conservation at Cornell University. Meryl Henderson has illustrated many books for children in her twenty-five year career, one of her most recent being Bats! Strange and Wonderful also written by Laurence Pringle.