This book is gorgeous! The pages are thick and sturdy, definitely a must with the accordion design. The artist and author take the reader on a journey beginning at the surface and then descending deeper and deeper, sharing not only sea life but also the way humans explore the ocean. This is the first book I've read that focus on both! I think it's perfect to engage a variety of interests. Once the reader reaches the deepest point, the journey ascends until we reach the surface again, making it feel like we were taken on a wonderful expedition. The art is exquisite and the information shared is interesting and engaging. The book is large, and even though the cover is presented vertically, it is held and read horizontally, with the spine at the top. The accordion pages can be flipped one at a time, and also unfolded into a long, connected, dual-sided piece of art.

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What a beautifully illustrated book about the ocean. Our toddler really enjoyed it, as he loves anything to do with the ocean and we brought it with us to the aquarium.

I noticed that it is kinda hard for kids to understand that the live in the sea is not only what they see. That the sea, the surface, the deepth are full of animals and they have different cycle. And this book shows it in the perfect way.

Why?

Cause we see the "level". The book is divided and kids can observe what is happeing and how the live is going. Why some animals need more light when some can live only in the dark? The way authors and illustratiors designed this is really good and worth to be mentioned here.

So, it is great for kids. Especially these little ones asking milion questions per hour

As currently in the galley edition I have, I would not add this book to my library collection. The best way to describe it is a word dump. The book tries to talk about the various layers of the sea and what is in them, but it never explains the sea has layers. It just goes right into what would be found in those layers. Plus, all the words are info bits that run into each other. This book was not for this reader.

I loved reading this book with my 7 year old daughter. She loved learning about the sea and she really enjoyed the illustrations. She was very excited each time I turned the page to see what we would learn about next.

Thanks to Netgalley and QEB Publishing for a free digital copy.

A great book for older kids about the sea and it's many facets and layers. I thought the method of telling the story of diving below the surface was great and it is bursting with facts and information.

The Sea Below My Toes is a beautiful book with gorgeous illustrations featuring the ocean floor and sea life. The layout and images create stimulating movement throughout the book.
Charlotte Guillain guides you through each ocean depth, citing facts about the creatures and ecosystems along the way. This book was genuinely captivating!

Thanks to Netgalley and QEB Publishing for the digital ARC.

I have only seen this book in digital, so I'm very curious what it looks like physically, given the artwork. Specifically, the book consists of two MASSIVE pieces of continuous art. From cresting waves all the way down to the absolute sea floor (twice, hence two images), with no real page breaks. There's obvious points where the breaks are intended to go (no text, only furthest extremities of animals), but these sections aren't blank. It's a continuation of the artwork, allowing everything to flow.

Now, this is a WORDY book. This is not a bedtime story, which I discovered too late. XD But my kid was interested enough to let me keep reading, so that's a vote in its favor. This would be a much better pick for a child to read to themselves, but they've got to be beyond easy readers. And maybe have a parent around, anyways, because some of the animals names are a bit longer.

Parents that fondly remember the old DK nonfiction books will get a bit of nostalgia here. Not quite so information dense, but still very informative, with the bonus of better art. Pair this with a few documentaries, and you've probably got your child's next special interest.

Advanced reader copy provided by the publisher.

As expected from the Quarto Publishing team, I got really happy reading this fun, informative read with really amazing illustrations!

Thank you, Quarto Publishing Group - QEB Publishing, for the advance reading copy.

This book is a part of the Look Closer series which aims to educate the young readers in a fun, colourful way about the different water worlds and their rich inhabitants.

You will love the colourful content. You will absolutely absorb the information in no time. You will get to learn a lot more about the different life forms beneath the sea surface. It's almost like a real, perfect dream.

Go for this! Grab it. It's already out there!

For me, this one was a personal favourite. I enjoy reading anything about the ocean. This book is a part of the Look Closer series. It talks you through all of the animals you can find in the sea from the surface down to the sea bed. The artwork of this book is outstanding, and really detailed. I read this with my niece who is 3 and We both enjoyed talking about all of the different animals together.

Read this with my 5 year old, she enjoyed the boom as well as illustrations. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review

An excellent resource for teaching the zones of the ocean! Beautifully illustrated and full of fun facts, take a dive to the very bottom of the sea and learn what lurks beneath the waves from the sunlight to the abysmal zone.

This is a surprisingly informative children's book that takes the reader on a journey through all the zones of the ocean starting with the Sunlight Zone and finishing with the Abyssal Zone.

The illustrations a colourful and inviting and the information regarding each zone and the animals that live there is both interesting and age appropriate for primary school aged kids.

A great addition to any family bookcase.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for giving me a free digital copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review.

Cleverly done, this science lesson takes us from a dabble of our toes in a rock pool, and submerges us in the ocean, right down to the Mariana Trench and Challenger Deep. Turn it over, and the other page does the same – or you start at the bottom where you ended and come up for air. It's not the only book to do this, and to be made out of just one huge column of thick paper, but it's a very good one – and opening the page out from its concertina-fashion folds will only endear the amount of natural history here to the young audience. Here be beasties of much renown – critters with dangerously transparent teeth, slithery things longer than a blue whale, and a lot more. The art is strong, and only once does it push the text into the wrong order – as it's laid out we are told something is like something else, before we get to see what that something else is. We're clearly in the world of pretty minor quibbles, then – a strong four stars.

The illustrations are beautiful, I love the way the information is set out in small bite-sized chunks which is perfect for my six year old. He loved being able to read some of this and learn! Great educational read!

Wow! From the front cover to the end of the book, the illustrations are delightful. I love the way the information is set out in small bite-sized chunks which is perfect for my less confident readers. The organisation of the book is well considered as you gradually venture deeper and deeper beneath the surface. Will definitely be purchasing a copy for our school library. Highly recommended.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

The Sea Below My Toes is a beautiful children's book which is jam packed full of information, facts and beautiful illustrations. The book starts above the sea exploring a rock pool then delves below the sea. I enjoyed how the book was divided into zones such as the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone etc taking them deeper and deeper under the sea. There is so much to learn about in this book and so many amazing and wonderful creatures, species and sea life things to see and discover across every page!

This is a beautiful book that visually explores the depths of the seas and shows what can be found there. Intriguingly, it includes both natural occurrences, like the creatures and plants, but also man-made additions, like submarines and research devices.

The text is informative, sharing interesting facts about the various creatures in each zone. It covers the adaptations that make them able to survive in the different conditions, such as how it hunts or disguises themselves. The font used is sometimes unclear, which may cause difficulty for younger readers.

Crucially, the illustrations are lovely, providing a sweeping exploration of the sea. The art style is loose, portraying the flowing nature of the water, though it does occasionally make it harder to differentiate between the elements. It is stylised so for educational purposes, real images of the creatures would need to be studied alongside this book. As such, it would make a great addition to a class/school library or as an educational aid for teaching.

The topic and writing style make this ideal for reading to five to eleven-year-olds. From the vocabulary used and how much of it is phonetically decodable, a child would be about eight years old to read this independently or with minimal support.

This was a cute children's book. There was a lot of text on each page, so I would recommend it for higher learners or for use in a classroom. Would be a great accompaniment to a lesson on levels of the ocean. Book describes each level of the ocean, how far deep it is, and what animals can be found at the level. The graphics were beautiful and I loved that for each animal discussed, we got a picture. Especially with deep see creatures, it's sometimes hard to imagine what things look like. My only complaint is that the book had been a little better organized. We started at the surface, went through all the zones, and then came back to the surface, but then it seemed like we dived back down. It took me several reads to figure that part out.

We LOVE The Street Beneath My Feet and The Skies Above My Eyes, so we were excited to see a new book in the series, especially one about the ocean. The illustrations are so beautiful and there is so much great information inside. We’re excited to add this book to our library when it comes out.

Thank you NetGalley and QEB Publishing for the opportunity to review this book.