Endangered and Extinct Fish: Lightning Bolt Books ™ - Animals in Danger

Lightning Bolt Books ® - Animals in Danger

by Jennifer Boothroyd

Cape seahorses and speartooth sharks are two examples of endangered fish. Few of them exist in the wild. Other fish have already gone extinct. What hurts these animals? What can you do to help? Listen to this book to find out!

Please The original source audio for this production includes noise/volume issues. This is the best available audio from the publisher.

Genres: Picture Books

Audible Audio

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although I do of course appreciate that Jennifer Boothroyd’s picture book Endangered and Extinct Fish is meant to be a basic introduction for children from about the age of five to eight, sorry, but the author does not in any manner (and even in a picture book geared towards very young readers and listeners) go even remotely far enough (for me) with assigning blame as to why the endangered piscine species presented and described in Endangered and Extinct Fish are in danger of dying out, are in danger of disappearing forever (and indeed, I also rather majorly question why for the extinct fish, ALL of them are fish that became extinct millions of years ago, are only known from fossils, why Jennifer Boothroyd totally does not want to seemingly feature fish species more recently extinct due to primarily human activity such for example Adriatic sturgeons, blue walleyes and many species of cisco). For albeit Boothroyd does point out that overfishing and water pollution are greatly reducing and critically endangering many species of fish, she obviously then chooses to ignore and not specifically mention horrible scenarios like shark finning and that many shark species are actually facing possible extinction due to in particular the Chinese cultural but totally unnecessary attachment to and taste for their ridiculous shark fin soup (and not to mention that I do find it hugely problematic that in her suggestions at the back of Endangered and Extinct Fish Jennifer Boothroyd actually rather categorically claims that aquariums protect fish and are all and sundry somehow to be seen and approached as something positive, and thus not to be considered critically).

And therefore, for me, Endangered and Extinct Fish and in particular what the author textually states and what is being ignored and/or glossed over by her regarding how human behaviour is causing far far too many fish species to become critically endangered, yes, this really does leave much to be desired. So truly, the only reason why I am still rating Endangered and Extinct Fish with two stars and not with one star is that I do find it cheering that Jennifer Boothroyd has included a short but sufficiently detailed bibliography (and yes, said bibliography is in my opinion the only part of Endangered and Extinct Fish that is in my humble opinion actually worthwhile reading and checking out, for the presented text is just too full of informational gaps and with the author not ever being critical enough of overfishing, of humans polluting oceans, lakes, rivers etc.).

[Soren Hines · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is very fascinating. It is at my reading level. I liked how many animals it told me about. It had a picture of a big skeleton of a big extinct fish that was the size of a rhinoceros.

[Barb Keister · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of an Endangered and Extinct series. Vibrant photographs, easy to read text, and nice use of text features for primary readers.