Little Inventors Mission Oceans!: Invention ideas to save the seas

Want to save the turtles? Worried about our oceans?This is the Collins Little Inventors Mission Oceans Book, 152 pages, 20 x 20cm in paperback.This book is superb, it not only teaches us how the oceans are being affected by our everyday actions but it makes the kids think what they can do to msje things better. It gives a great insight into a geography lesson teaching us all about the worlds oceans and what lives in it and how. From finding fossils and then illustrating what the first fishes might've looked like or maybe climate change what we can do why its happening, who it affects and create a world for polar bears or a city that could survive the impending rise in water levels. The spaces for drawing aren't that big, so younger kids will need a spare bit of paper.It's an important message for kids, as it is our and our parents generation who have done the most damage to the oceans and we need to stop! The kids will tell us off, if they are anything like my daughters.Overall I really like this book, as both my 11 and 4 year old love it and both get involved. It normally ends in tears though ha! Well recommended if you want to save the turtles. Avoid if you are a flat earther.

With keen divers as parents, the ocean is a key area of interest to my grandchildren, and this is a fantastic book for nurturing that interest and expanding their knowledge.The whole book is a delight and packed full of information about our oceans and what we need to do to look after them. It takes you through the ocean ecosystem, including the coral word, and explains the impact of humans (the problems with plastic) and climate. There’s also a fun section on ocean myths and monsters.But where this book really excels is in it’s interactive approach. It doesn’t just feed kids with information but challenges them to actually think about the issues and try to come up with solutions. My 11 year-old granddaughter was especially drawn to the real examples of ideas from her peers that were subsequently developed into actual prototypes.This is a great book for parents to work through with their children. Certainly, younger children in the targeted 7-12 age group would need support. And indeed the authors have provided some handy guidance for this very purpose.Highly recommended!Thanks for reading my review. I hope you found it helpful. Check out my Amazon profile page for more reviews of children’s books and puzzles and educational toys and games.

This is not a book that you sit down & read in one go.It's the sort of book that you pick up, read a bit then come back & read another day/week/month because right now, you are too busy trying to come up with your own invention.So, unlike many books it's one that will stay on the bookshelf for quite some time to come.It includes a number of realisations of inventions created by children in the target age group (7-12), clear well written & easy to understand text, a simple but effective illustrative style & a lot of encouragement for children to dream big & to believe that they can create things that could have an impact in the world.It also contains facts, spaces within the book where the reader is encouraged to write/draw their own responses to the topics covered e.g. Draw what you think the first underwater creature looked like, what ideas do you have to reduce the amount of plastic in the ocean?I think this book is better suited to age 9 & up children, however the title "Little Inventors" put my 11 year old son off reading it.While he is a biochem & physics nerd as well as an inventor of all sorts of strange devices, he is at an age where he doesn't want to be thought of as little.He did visit the website though, and has been caught coming up with an invention that means he's definitely been looking in the book when I wasn't watching him.I suspect despite his dislike of the title, this book will be here for a couple of years before it gets put into the charity pile.

My children love the sea and one of them is thinking of being a Marine Biologist. We have read a lot of non-fiction on the matter. They often cover the same areas and although my children don't seem to mind, I do a bit! This 'Little Inventors: Mission Oceans' takes an intelligent tilt at the genre and is not just a fact book. There are facts here, but also ideas to inspire and tasks to undertake. We have read books that are 101 experiments for kids to try and this book has these in it, but only as part of a wider whole.I was really impressed with the way that the book talked about the oceans and then encouraged the reader to explore with their imagination. Not all the experiments are ready for you, you also are given the task of thinking what may find underwater and making it yourself. This is great for the slightly less science kids as they can use their imagination and crafting skills.As well as having wonderful content, the book is also nice to look at. Full of fun illustrations the book is good for an intelligent 6+ year old and can go quite a lot older. It is a book that has spaces for you to write and draw in and it is up to you whether you do this or write on a piece of paper instead. We have chosen to keep it clean so that we can go back and try again in the future.