Fabien Cousteau Expeditions: Journey Under the Arctic by
James O. Fraioli, illustrated by Joe St. Pierre, 100 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL
Margaret K. McElderry Books (Simon and Schuster), 2020. $13.
Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Two junior explorers go into the deep Arctic
waters with explorer Fabien Cousteau.
They explore the ice and its animals before taking a submersible to the
depths of the ocean floor in search of a dumbo octopus. While below the ice, they meet other arctic
creatures and give facts about those animals.
I felt like the premise of the two explorers being in the Arctic was
confusing (maybe it's introduced in the first book?) and too many story lines were going on mixed with the facts. The illustrations are comic book type
coloring and facial expressions. I
enjoyed the nonfiction parts of the books, but as for the submersible I wasn’t
sure what was true and what was part of the story. There are three different ideas going on
throughout the book and it made for a jumbled read.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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