Nothing is more exciting than sharks, and this title is packed with amazing facts about these fearsome underseas predators. Did you know that there were sharks on earth even before dinosaurs? For more than twenty years, 'Hungry, Hungry Sharks 'has been a staple nonfiction title in the Step into Reading line. Get a more updated book to read about sharks.ĮDIT: Now I do see that there's a 2009 version out there and as I have not read that one, I don't know if it still says sharks eat people, but I hope not as that's not fact.Book Description Paperback. Overall I liked the illustrations and the many facts about different kinds of sharks, although after reading that sharks eat people in this book I am a bit skeptical about the other facts in this book so I would not recommend reading this book or trust it as a reliable source of shark facts. Shark attacks are not even that common as this book might make you think. Sharks figure out what is food by tasting it which is why they bite humans sometimes. Sure, the shark may nab your arm off or your leg or whatnot, but it doesn't mean they want to eat you or go out of their way to eat humans. It is a myth that has been debunked years ago. In the book, it said 'sharks eat people', but that is not true. I want to start off by saying this book was written in 1986 and needs to be updated with its facts. They live underwater and are picked on by dolphins. That’s like a greg story right there, man - leaves you speechless but for all the wrong reasons. So the scientists took the shark back to sea. And it kept bumping into the sides of the tank. Once scientists caught a great white shark. And it is hard to keep big sharks alive in a tank.

a shark book of fewer than fifty pages that still somehow manages to have a few pages that should have been edited away. There’s not much to this book, but i gotta squeeze in as many shark books as i can during SHARK WEEK RARRRR, so there you have it. Which is not how whales are made, but it SHOULD be. That page is extra fun because it looks like this little shark is barfing that whale into existence It is not safe to stay near a hungry mother.Īnd why sharks should not eat puffer fishĪnd how dolphins are the bullies of the ocean and it’s about time we stop thinking of them as pals worthy of airbrushing onto things because they are horrible beasts As soon as they are born the pups go their own way.

The pup of the great white shark is almost the size of a man. It is only a very tiny little book, but it does have some knowledge to drop, about how you should be glad that your mommy is not a shark: If you know me and the breadth of my reading tastes, you may well ask yourself “is this children’s book or monsterporn?”īut lemme clear it up for you - this is a children’s book, so get outta here, sickos!

Hungry hungry sharks by joanna cole