Taking Apart a Coral Reef by Chris Oxlade
Peel back, take apart, reassemble and enjoy the awesome science of a coral reef!Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef is full of all the most colourful, microscopic and surprising features of a coral reef. Picking apart the built-up layers of this beautiful biome - the tough coral skeleton and the delicate polyp structures - and uncovering the reef's many inhabitants, we get to know the pieces and partnerships that make a coral reef so vital to our oceans. Finally, see how it all goes back together as a symbiotic whole, and learn the science of saving reefs around the world.

Contents include: Welcome to the coral reef / Under the surface / Coral polyps / Stingers and algae / Reef growers / Life on the reef / Fish around the reef / Nooks and crannies / Camouflage / Colours and patterns / Predators / Building up a reef / Reefs in danger (bleaching, invasive species, climate change)Inside Info is a stylish and engrossing series of books diving into the layers of things kids are curious about - giving them the chance to pull it all apart and put it back together again, while learning STEM fundamentals! Full of cross-sections, cutaways, exploded diagrams, labels, jokes and easter-egg details for the curious reader aged 7+ to discover.
 
 
Primary Themed 570 Nature
 
KS2
217 x 273 x 10 (mm)
32 pages
Paperback Feb 2026 9781526327178