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Rosenstock, Barb

Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere

48 pp. | Little | June, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-316-39382-9 $18.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-316-39379-9

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Katherine Roy. Rosenstock presents a gripping account of Otis Barton and Will Beebe's historic 1930 journey into the deep ocean. Otis and Will were fascinated by ocean life as boys. As adults, they partner up, and with a team of scientists build the Bathysphere, a five-thousand-pound diving tank. Roy's fluid watercolors and dramatic perspectives capture the heart-pounding emotion of the scientists' dangerous journey eight hundred feet underwater. Bib.

Reviewer: Julie Danielson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2018