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Overview

This fourth installment in the hilarious and highly illustrated full-color Superpower Field Guide series features Olenka, an ordinary eel. Olenka may be slimy, wiggly, and the color of mud, but never, ever underestimate an eel.

Meet Olenka, an ordinary eel. Did I hear you say, “But aren’t eels just long slippery slimy fishy-things that . . . hmm . . . .  Is there anything else to know about eels?” You bet your buttons there is! 
Sit back and hold on tight, because Olenka is going to amaze you with superpowers such as double invisibility and shape-shifting, and the super secret Lair of the Abyss  (that means a top-secret deep-sea hideout). In fact, Olenka's life is so impossibly extraordinary, it has baffled the smartest scientists in the world for thousands of years. 
“Impossible!” you say. I say, "you don’t know eels." But you will.
Includes a ruler printed along the edge of the book’s back cover to aid the observations of young field scientists everywhere!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780544949218
Publisher: HMH Books
Publication date: 06/23/2020
Series: Superpower Field Guide Series
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Rachel Poliquin is a writer engaged in all things orderly and disorderly in the natural world. With a cross-disciplinary background in visual arts, cultural history and natural history, she holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia and a Post-Doctoral Degree in History from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Poliquin is the author of the Superpower Field Guide series, and has also written for Science FridayThe Believer Magazine, and The New York Times.
www.rachelpoliquin.com
Twitter: @ravishingbeasts
Instagram: @rachelpoliquin
 


Nicholas John Frith is the author/illustrator of Hector and Hummingbird, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's book Prize 2016 and winner of the inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize, as well as the book Hello, Mr. Dodo! and the Superpower Field Guide series. He lives and works on the coast of Dorset, England.
www.nicholasjohnfrith.com 
Twitter: @njfrith.

Read an Excerpt

THIS IS AN EEL.
   Just an ordinary eel.
   But even ordinary eels are extraordinary. In fact, even ordinary eels are animal superheroes.
   Did I hear you say, “But aren’t eels just long, slippery, slimy fishy-things that . . . hmm . . . Is there anything more to know?”
   You bet your buttons there is! Imagine this: While this eel was just a baby half as big as your pinkie finger, she swam 300 million times the length of her body. If I’m doing my math right, and if you’re about four feet tall, that’s the same as you traveling all the way to the moon!
  “Impossible!” you say.
   I say, “You don’t know eels.”
   But you will.

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