I loved the book. It was one of the best-designed books ever, in my opinion. I especially liked the funny illustrations. What I liked the most was the page about sharks’ senses. I learned they are very sensitive to electric currents so they can’t be kept in aquariums with pumps and lights. I learned sharks prefer fatty foods and that’s why they don’t actually eat humans. They just bite them. They prefer sea lions because sea lions have a lot more fat. I also learned a great white shark’s skin is smooth if you stroke it toward its tail, but the skin is as rough as sandpaper if you stroke it toward its head.
     Reading this book was great fun, especially the fold-out page which is a photograph of a great white shark. The picture I liked the best was of a man who had been bitten by a great white shark and recovered. One photo shows the cuts, another shows the stitches, and a third shows the scars. My overall impression is that the book has a lot of information, and I give it a score of 10 out of 10. If I had to describe the book in just one word, it would be “perfect”.

(Originally published in the Summer 2000 issue of YES Mag.)