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REAL LIVE CEPHALOPODS
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Jennifer Dussling’s Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (Penguin Young Readers, 1999) is a good pick for young non-fiction fans. All about the giant squid for ages 4-7. |
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Shirley Raye Redmond’s Tentacles (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2003) – a Step Into Reading book – is a catchy non-fiction account of the giant squid for ages 6-8. |
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By Mary Jo Rhodes and David Hall, Octopuses and Squid (Children’s Press, 2006) is a nice basic scientific introduction, illustrated with great color photographs. For ages 6-10. |
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By H.P. Newquist, Here There Be Monsters (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) is a beautifully designed and illustrated account of the legendary kraken and Architeuthis dux, the giant squid. A great mix of literature, legend, history, and science for ages 9-12. |
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Mary Cerullo and Clyde Roper’s Giant Squid (Capstone Press, 2012) is the exciting story of the giant squid and the quest to track it down, packed with historical engravings and color photos. For ages 9-12. |
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For committed squid enthusiasts, Wendy Williams’s Kraken (Abrams, 2011) is a reader-friendly coverage of “The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid.” A cool read for teenagers and adults. |
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By Richard Ellis, The Search for the Giant Squid (Penguin Books, 1999) is a fascinating overview of the biology and mythology of one of the great mysteries of the sea. For teenagers and adults. |
| From the University of California Museum of Paleontology, see Cephalopoda for detailed information about cephalopods and their evolutionary history. The site has diagrams, photographs, and some fascinating hyperlinked fun facts. | |
| The Cephalopod Page has information on octopuses, squid, cuttlefish, and nautiluses, a photo gallery, informational articles, and detailed illustrated lesson plans, among them “Color Change in Cephalopods” and “Cephalopod Vision.” | |
| From The New Yorker, The Squid Hunter is the story of marine biologist Steve O’Shea’s quest for the giant squid. | |
| From the Smithsonian magazine, The Giant Squid: Dragon of the Deep is a short history of sightings of the squid, the creature most likely to have been the inspiration for the legendary kraken. | |
| From the Discovery Channel, see the first ever video of a Giant Squid in its natural habitat. | |
| Octopus vs. Squid – find out the differences and similarities with this handy chart. | |
| The octopus brain is nothing like ours, but scientists are using it to discover how intelligence evolved. From Wired magazine, see How the Freaky Octopus Can Help Us Understand the Human Brain. | |
| It’s hard to find a cephalopod. Check out Cephalopod: Master of Camouflage on You Tube. Also see Where’s the Octopus? | |
| The chambered nautilus is a living fossil – it’s been around for half a billion years – but it now may be in danger, due to the high demand for its pearly shell. From the New York Times, see Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death. | |
| Squid in space! Really. A bobtail squid was sent into space on board the space shuttle. Read about it and find out why. |