Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story

by Maggie de Vries

Book Overview

Many times in her 177 years, Big Fish has come close to death. Stalked by panners in the gold rush, nearly crushed in 1913's rockslide, almost stranded when the lake drained into the river in 1924,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553653033
• ISBN13: 9781553653035
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Greystone Kids
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.9" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Engaging fishy adventure spanning nearly two centuries.

Award-winning writer Maggie de Vries and prize-winning illustrator Renne Benoit present Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story, a children's picturebook about Big Fish, an ancient sturgeon nearly 177 years old who has dodged death many times, from drainage to disease to the threat of sports fishermen. Now laws protect her and her kind, and keep up hope that humans can help her species to survive. A fascinating tale about survival amid both natural and man-made dangers, Big Fish concludes with a handful of scientific and historic facts about sturgeon. A brief letter by Rick Hansen, chairman of the Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society, rounds out this engaging fishy adventure spanning nearly two centuries.