He dreamed of breathing beneath the waves and swimming as gracefully as a fish. As he grew, Jacques fell in love with the sea. Once upon a time in France, a baby was born under the summer sun. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Only one disappointment: where are the source notes? Grades K-3. A closing scene, coated in sooty grays, describes how human activity has damaged sea life and in a final, inspiring message, Berne calls for young people to become caring stewards of the earth. Why he floated.” Puybaret’s smooth-looking acrylic paintings extend the words’ elegant simplicity and beautifully convey the sense of infinite, underwater space and an inventive format further reinforces the text: a bisected scene shows a diver’s waterline view above and below the surface a series of panels depicts Cousteau and his friends learning to dive progressively deeper and a gatefold dramatically suggests deep-sea depth. a manfish swimming, diving into the unknown.”), Berne offers a luminous picture-book biography about Jacques Cousteau. In just a few lines per page, she follows Cousteau through his life as he develops his twin passions for filmmaking and oceanic exploration, and she shows how a life’s path can begin with deep, childhood curiosity: “Little Jacques loved water-the way it felt on his hands, his face, his body. *Starred Review* Writing in simple poetic language, both lyrical and concise (“Bubbles rising through the silence of the sea, silvery beads of breath.
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