Down Under Down Under: Diving Adventures on the Great Barrier Reef

Ann McGovern

StarWalk Kids Media, Jun 30, 2014 - Juvenile Fiction - 48 pages

Scuba diving in the waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef is magical, especially to a twelve-year-old girl. Living on a dive boat, she experiences all the beauties of the reef. Every day is filled with thrilling adventures - and sometimes more danger than she ever expected.

Contents

• Down Under: 5
• The Monsters at Cod Hole: 12
• About the Great Barrier Reef: 17
• Odd Creatures: 22
• Sea Snakes: 28
• Shark Feeding: 32
• The Wreck of the Ghost Ship: 38
• Worries on the Reef: 44
• Memories: 49
• Getting Ready for a Dive: 58
• Index: 62

About the author

"LOVE AND LOSS AND WIDE-EYED WONDER. ANN MCGOVERN SEES SO MUCH AND SPEAKS VOLUMES." -- Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, novelist, playwright, writer and illustrator of numerous children's books. Ann has embraced poetry after 45 years as a prize-winning author of more than 55 books for children, including the now classic Stone Soup and Too Much Noise. Her books in print number 25 million copies. A tireless traveler who has visited every continent, McGovern is always refueling ideas of place and purpose into her poems. And as a scuba diver, she writes about the underwater world of coral reefs from the Caribbean to China. Her 70 poems have appeared in more than 50 journals, including Confrontation, Georgetown Review, Nimrod, Rosebud and Fulcrum. Her poems have been printed in many anthologies and have won numerous prizes. She has been featured in many poetry readings at libraries, The National Arts Club, and coffeehouses in the USA and abroad. She says, "It's a challenging, heady experience to weave reflections, insights, sensations, thoughts and feelings into the many-faceted fabric of a poem."

Bibliographic information

• Title: Down Under Down Under: Diving Adventures on the Great Barrier Reef
• Author: Ann McGovern
• Photographs by: Martin Scheiner, James B Scheiner
• Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media, 2014
• ISBN: 163083338X, 9781630833381
• Length: 48 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Marine Life; Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World / General; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Australia & Oceania