Oceans

Rand McNally, Peter David Scott. Rand McNally & Company, $14.95 (16pp) ISBN 978-0-528-83835-4

OPEN WIDE Two accordion books--Rain Forest: A Fold-Out Book by Nicholas Harris, illus. by Colin Woolf, and Oceans: A Fold-Out Book by Harris, illus. by Peter David Scott and Eric Robson--capitalize upon a spacious format to represent their expansive subjects. The books open out into continuous five-foot illustrations, one side vertical and the other horizontal, both drawn to scale. Brief entries identify the featured wildlife.

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