Ocean Speaks
  • Published: 25 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780735265080
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $38.00

Ocean Speaks

How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret

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Meet Marie Tharp (1920-2006), the first person to map the Earth's underwater mountain ridge, in this inspiring picture book biography from the author of Shark Lady.

Meet Marie Tharp (1920-2006), the first person to map the Earth's underwater mountain ridge, in this inspiring picture book biography from the author of Shark Lady.

From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job at a laboratory in New York. But then she faced another barrier: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but her evidence was irrefutable. She proved to the world that her research was correct. The mid-ocean ridge that Marie discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet, and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office.
  • Published: 25 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780735265080
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $38.00
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Praise for Ocean Speaks

ACCOLADES AND PRAISE FOR Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist:

  • An Amazon Best Book of the Month
  • Named a Best Children's Book of 2017 by Parents magazine
  • One of New York Times's Twelve Books for Feminist Boys and Girls
Winner: Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award
Winner: A Nerdy Book Club Award
Winner: The Chickadee Award
Nominee: Beverly Cleary Children's Choice
Nominee: Kentucky Bluegrass Award
Winner: CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book
Winner: NSTA Best STEM Book Winner (2018)
Finalist: 2017 Cybils

"This eloquent profile follows Clark from a childhood visit to an aquarium through her demonstration that sharks can actually be trained and so are not 'mindless killers' as widely supposed." --Kirkus Reviews

"Keating (Pink Is for Blobfish) offers a lively portrait of scientist Eugenie Clark, who pursued a passion for sharks . . ." -- Publishers Weekly

"Shark Lady is a celebration of the wonder of nature and of a daring woman who changed the way the world saw the ocean." --A Mighty Girl