An Ocean World

An Ocean World
Peter Sis (1992)

An Ocean World is quite unique.  When someone thinks of a picture book, one assumes that there is text and pictures!  In this unique book, there is no text at all, except on the title page and cover!  The rest of the book is a compilation of beautiful illustrations that, one may possibly assume, chronicles a whale's life in the ocean!  These pictures leave a lot up to the reader's imagination! That being said, this book would be perfect to use in  K-6 grades with many different activities and lessons.  The main thing I would use this book would be for students to create a story centered around these pictures.  I think any grade level could use this as a writing prompt, and teachers could vary the lesson based on different criteria needed for lesson like, details, dialog, personification, etc.  To bring art into this, students could use this book as a model to draw their own picture book!  One other lesson that this book could be used in, is a science lesson! It could be an introductory lesson to a unit about the environment/ocean, a lesson about habitat loss/how pollution affects habitats, and much more! I really enjoyed this book because of the freedom of imagination it allows the reader to have, and that the pictures are very captivating to observe, analyze, and look at!