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Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live.
You'll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it stretches out its pseudopods to hunt and gobble up its prey, and you'll see the life-or-death water ballet of a slipper-shaped paramecium as it swims away from its mortal enemy, the pincushion-shaped suctorian. You'll also meet the euglena, classified as both plant and animal; the rotifer, a creature with two wheels of whirling hairlike projections that help it move by squeezing in and out like an accordion; and the incredible hydra, a fearsome bully that constantly threatens other small animals with its crown of grasping tentacles.
With this book, your key to the world of single-celled organisms, you'll learn fascinating lessons about how these strange animals eat, reproduce, and defend themselves. Enter their microscopic domain and see for yourself!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; Dover Children's Science Books edition (August 13, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486403815
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486403816
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 6 - 10 years, from customers
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 8
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.99 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.25 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Eusebius
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting and helpful first microscope book
Review: This really is an interesting and very, very helpful first book on what a child with a microscope can find in a jar of pond water. Alvin and Virginia Silverstein keep the text informative and simple and don't oversimplify or make it dull. There's a brief description of Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microscopic life, a chapter titled "Let's Go Hunting" to get the interest flowing and then sections on the common things found in a jar of pond water: amoeba, paramecium, algae, euglena, rotifers, hydra, and flatworms.This book is about collecting and looking at specimens - it is not meant to be an instructional book on the mechanics of a microscope.Throughout the book, there's a good quantity of black-and-white photos of each of these microscopic animals and they were obviously taken with a professional high-powered microscope - so the kids who use this book might be a little disappointed that they can't see these animals with such magnification or clarity - but I suspect that most kids will be perfectly fine with this.I think this book would be a good buy for a child from about 7 to 11 years old. It should really whet their appetites for using that microscope!

Reviewer: Tater girl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book for the novice microbiologist
Review: I bought this book so that I could learn more about microbes and what is in our water. I used to be a lab tech for testing water & wastewater. I wanted to get back into that line of biology as a hobby. This is the perfect book for the new student or to brush up on your knowledge. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn about water microbiology.

Reviewer: Sara Morrison Wieda
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Starter Book for Elementary-Aged Readers
Review: This was a very informative book. I bought it on the recommendation of another Amazon review when I bought a microscope for my elementary-aged daughter, and I am glad I did. It gives a lot of context to what she is looking at and things she can look for. The only improvement I would wish for is color pictures of the slide samples. The pictures are all black and white. The photographs, however, are off good quality and really sparked the interest of my seven year old

Reviewer: boater
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice book for amateurs
Review: Good introduction to microscopy

Reviewer: B Gray
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very good.
Review: Very easy to understand. The pictures helped to understand what was being talked about. I enjoyed it very much .

Reviewer: Forest7
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Misleading title for the book....
Review: The book, "A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope" is a well written description of the world of microscopic animals found in water. It is well written on a basic level. However, the sub-title, "exploring with a microscope" is misleading. Besides a historical description about the origins of the microscope, there is nothing in the book related to microscopes. There are no pictures of microscopes, or even simple details on their use. There is little to connect the book to the microscope for young children. Even a picture of a child looking into a microscope would help make the content more related to the title.

Reviewer: chillin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book
Review: I bought my daughter a Compound Microscope for Christmas~~~~ I wanted her to explore a new world and to get away from the electronic world! But what I didn't know was how excited the microscope was for me to because of this book! We went down to a local pond and pulled out water from different area's like the book say's! We looked under the Microscope and the new life it was amazing! But what was the greatest was what I found among the seaweed looking float'y algae looking stuff (not sure what to call it)~~Life~ is what we found ~~~ Microscopic tiny life that thrived on the seaweed stuff! Unbelievable! Tip~~~shake off dirt and stuff from plant life from the pond into a Petri dish, just where there is enough water to cover the bottom and keep turning it under a microscope and see if you can see what we saw!! We are so excited that after it warms up outside we are going to different ponds and lakes to test our theory that different microscopic water life lives in different water settings! Bravo for this book!!!!!

Reviewer: D. Furr
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book for the basics
Review: Great book for the basics. My 7 year old references this one while we look at water under the microscope and it's easy enough for him to read and understand. Could use a couple more descriptions, details, and variety but not bad for it's target level.

Reviewer: Ing. F. Eduardo Trejo Gayosso
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Recomendable, un auxiliar para adentrarse en la maravilla del micro mundo.

Reviewer: littlefroggy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I'm SO pleased I bought this. It was thoroughly engaging for my bright 7 year old but would also satisfy children up to 12. I enjoyed reading it too. We got the microscope out and found many of the featured creatures living in our pond, most excitingly rotifers.

Reviewer: dan hunter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is a fairly good book for a child starting to use a microscope. The language is simple enough and no chemcals or glass slides are needed.Using pond water creatures as your specimen supply lets you stay with fairly low magnifications. To see other things like cell structures an bacteria requires glass slides, dangerous messy stains, meticulously clean microscope lenses, dedicated lighting, oil immersion objectives, etc...Lower magnification means easier to focus, fewer lighting problems, and greater depth of field. Cleanup of the microscope should only take a clean rag and a few lens tissues, possibly a little dish detergent once in a while.Getting your own specimens from pond and aquarium water is very inexpensive too and can lead them into getting specimens from other sources like garden bugs, plants, etc, once they understand how to deal with pond specimens.The result is the child can actually observe living things that they have collected which is a lot less boring than staring at prepared slides that don't do anything.

Reviewer: Surabhi Singh
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A good concise book.

Reviewer: INIGO
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good guide book for begginers