My son has always been fascinated with Sharks so when I saw they had released a new Factology book on Sharks I asked if I could get a review copy to see if it was something that my son would have enjoyed.

Although the Factology books are a bit young for my son (recommended ages 8-11), the fact that I spent many hours searching for good non-fiction books for my son (he went through a stage where all he would read was very specific non-fiction books on things like sharks or snakes) means I am now always keen to write reviews on the books that I searched for when he was younger (I really did spend hours searching for these types of books).

Okay so what can you expect to find in this Shark book?

It covers quite a lot. And it is quite wide in what it covers – even things like cage diving and being an Aquarist. (I do not like the idea of cage diving but I am glad that books like this are including it as I think it encourages the kids to think about whether they consider cage diving good or bad.)

I have to admit that we found the entire book interesting but the pages which really got our attention where the ones that covered the sharks body. We found these pages particularly informative and something that I think other shark books for this age don’t always cover in such good detail.

I really thought they did a good job with the illustrations on these pages and they way they explained how things like the breathing and sight works. I was really impressed with this side of the book.

The younger version of my son would have spent hours with this book. In fact the page that they compare the sizes of the sharks reminded me of a 8-year old who unrolled a massive sheet of paper in the passage and spent ages marked out the different lengths of ocean creatures on it. I could imagine him taking that page and making his own version.

I also know the pages on the Meg, The Great White, Hammerheads and Rays would have been read and re-read countless times.

I enjoyed reading this book, I think they covered a wide range of shark related items, it was informative and they included some brilliant illustrations. I am in no doubt that if my son was a few years younger this would have been a firm favourite, in fact it would have been one of those books which he would have read countless times and he would have used it in his many animal projects that he was always working on.

So if you do have a kiddo you enjoys reading non-fiction and who is fascinated with creatures like sharks then I would say this is one for you.

I was given a free copy of this book but you can find it on Amazon here

Factology Sharks

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