Review Detail

Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish is a collection of poems that offer various perspectives at looking at jellyfish.

What I Liked: This book is a collection of brief poems that give you various perspectives of viewing a jellyfish. Each poem takes you into a different setting and allows the reader to get a glimpse at a jellyfish through a new lens. Some of the poems provide us with further information about jellyfish such as the classes they belong to, their life cycle, and the different places they exist such as the museum and the ocean.

The illustrations throughout this book help place you in the setting that the poem is taking place in as well as the perspective that the poem is providing. The realistic and detail oriented illustrations provide us with beautiful, eye catching images of jellyfish and the places that they exist in. Some of the illustrations are historical such as showing dinosaurs and jellyfish co-existing, others are of the vast ocean, while others are cartoon-like providing you graphics of a scene with a child and a jellyfish interacting.

Final Verdict: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish is a beautiful homage to the marine animal and provides you with different perspectives. Children ages 6 and up will appreciate the mesmerizing illustrations and the poems that go along with them helping you learn more about jellyfish with each turn of the page. This is also one that adults will appreciate with the soft poems highlighting this marine animal and the beauty of the jellyfish along with its dangers.