Ocean

A Photicular Book

Author: Carol Kaufmann and Dan Kainen Series: Photicular

A New York Times bestseller, Ocean brings readers face-to-face with undulating creatures of the mysterious seas. Each full-colour, moving image brings an animal to life using Photicular technology and is accompanied by a lively, informative essay.

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Imagine coming face-to-face with a brightly colored Sweetlips Fish. Or gliding after a Green Sea Turtle on his afternoon hunt for lunch. The magical follow-up to Safari, Ocean uses the same lenticular-based technology that transfers fluid 4-color movies onto a book page and offers a glimpse of the world under the sea with 8 beautiful Photicular images by artist Dan Kainen. An alien-like Dumbo Octopus hovers in the inky black deep, while a vivid orange Sea Nettle Jellyfish gracefully floats by. The bioluminescent and ferocious Deep-Sea Angler glows in the dark, while a neon sea horse feeds among the kelp. A sand shark bares its teeth and the moray eel peers out of the seaweed in vivid, up-close detail. Carol Kaufmann provides information on each animal and takes readers on a first-person trip to a living into the mysterious and infinite deep—from a living coral reef all they way to the ocean floor.

Critic Reviews

“"Showcasing stunning photographic images that ripple with movement, Dan Kainen fully immerses readers in a captivating underwater realm. Carol Kaufmann introduces each animal with tidbits about physical characteristics, behavior, and conservation. Delightful and engrossing, the text sparkles with evocative details, effervescent descriptions, and eyewitness immediacy." - School Library Journal Curriculum Connections -- School Library Journal Curriculum Connections”

“Showcasing stunning photographic images that ripple with movement, Dan Kainen fully immerses readers in a captivating underwater realm. Carol Kaufmann introduces each animal with tidbits about physical characteristics, behavior, and conservation. Delightful and engrossing, the text sparkles with evocative details, effervescent descriptions, and eyewitness immediacy.”

- School Library Journal Curriculum Connections

“Mesmerising.”

- The Bookseller

—The Bookseller
“Showcasing stunning photographic images that ripple with movement, Dan Kainen fully immerses readers in a captivating underwater realm. Carol Kaufmann introduces each animal with tidbits about physical characteristics, behavior, and conservation. Delightful and engrossing, the text sparkles with evocative details, effervescent descriptions, and eyewitness immediacy.”

- School Library Journal Curriculum Connections

—School Library Journal Curriculum Connections

About the Author

Dan Kainan is a New York inventor, artist, photographer, and industrial designer. An alumnus of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he is equally at home in such diverse fields as fabric screen-printing, electro-optic and laser systems design, and commercial lighting design and manufacturing. His art has been exhibited in the Ronald Feldman Gallery in Soho, among other New York galleries and private collections, and his lighting designs have been marketed nationwide. In the 1980s he started experimenting with holography, and then integrated images. This led to three patents in that field, the latest of which is the basis for his Photicular books.

Carol Kaufmann, a former staff writer for National Geographic, and, as one might imagine, is extremely well-travelled. She’s covered politics and presidential campaigns as well as archaeology, marine biology, and cultural anthropology stories all over the planet. Carol’s writing has appeared in Reader’s Digest, where she was the National Affairs Reporter, The Washington Post, George, and in the anthology A Woman’s Europe.