This is one of those beautiful books that begs to be picked up – I mean, just look at that cover! – and absorbed in wonder. While it’s most certainly not the type of book you might want carrying around in your bag while you’re out and about (although that’s totally personal preference, and I will concede there might exist someone who likes to lug around tomes in their bags while out running errands or just going around town), the size of the book was definitely a good choice; although there are also a few essays throughout the book, I believe the photographs are what the readers are here for, and the size of the book itself make it so that every beautiful colours jump out at you and every detail – every tentacle, arm, eye, and other appendages – is presented with incredible clarity.
The second installment of the Dive Into Reading series is, as you might have by now surmised, Spineless, by Susan Middleton.