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The poems were mostly okay, with a couple stand outs. It's worth a read, especially if you're inclined to enjoy things just because they're about the ocean. ( )

This book is actually a collection of children poetry that has as thematic the undersea world. The poems are written by different authors, among them you can find Rudyard Kipling, Lord Alfred Douglas, Ted Hughes, Lewis Carroll etc. sometimes the poems has a certain rhyming that seems to be like the echo of the waves hitting the shore. “Oh, grim and gloomy/So grim and gloomy/ Are the caves beneath the sea. / And bare and boomy,/ Those salt sea caverns be./”Oh, slim and slimy/ Or grey and grimy/Are the animals of the sea./Salt and oozy/And safe and snoozy/The caves where those animals be.”(James Reeves)I really have enjoyed “My other granny” by Ted Hughes. This poem is a cheerful and funny poem for small children. E.G: “My Granny is an octopus/At the bottom of the sea,/ And when she comes to supper/ She brings her family./ The sea-smell enters with them/ as they sidle and slither and spill/With their huge eyes and their tiny eyes/ and a dripping ocean-chill…. Some of her cousins are lobsters/Some floppy jelly fish -/ what would you be if your family tree/Grew out of such a dish?” ( )