From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems and pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job at a laboratory in New York but then faced another barrier: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but Marie’s evidence was irrefutable — the mid-ocean ridge that she discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet. Marie Tharp became the first person to map the Earth’s underwater mountain ridge and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office.
Ocean Speaks : How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean’s Biggest Secret
Written by Jess Keating. Illustrated by Katie Hickey.
Published in 2020 by Tundra Books.
the book was alright if your young u should read it
Great book and had great art. Loved that it was based on a true story and showed that even if you were a women you could still discover great things. Suggest for people into science or things like that.
It was interesting to listen to.The art work is cool
I thought it was really good. It tells younger women to take their stand and sexism is really old.
I liked the art style but the story didn’t interest me very much.
it was not my favortive book because it was a childish but i love the art on this book
my teacher read this book to use it wasnt bad but it would be better for younger people
Ocean Speaks follows the accomplishments of Marie Tharp and how she became a famous marine cartographer. Marie started out as a little girl who loved observing the world, she wanted to push the boundaries of what women could do. Eventually she got a job at a laboratory despite the fact that she was a women, but she couldn’t go on oceanic expeditions because women were considered bad luck at the time but she mapped out every little speck of data her coworkers gave her and she discovered a deep valley in the ocean floor, she became a famous cartographer and has gone down in history.
The book itself was pretty good and I really love how it was a true story and that it’s very inspirational. I also really loved art. The book was very well written and I loved the art a lot. I loved the story and its plot.It is inspirational and amazing in many ways.
Sincerely, a grade 6 student
From a young age, Marie Tharp loved watching the world. She loved solving problems. And she loved pushing the limits of what girls and women were expected to do and be. In the mid-twentieth century, women were not welcome in the sciences, but Marie was tenacious. She got a job at a laboratory in New York. But then she faced another barrier: women were not allowed on the research ships (they were considered bad luck on boats). So instead, Marie stayed back and dove deep into the data her colleagues recorded. She mapped point after point and slowly revealed a deep rift valley in the ocean floor. At first the scientific community refused to believe her, but her evidence was undeniable. She proved to the world that her research was correct. The mid-ocean ridge that Marie discovered is the single largest geographic feature on the planet, and she mapped it all from her small, cramped office.
“Ocean Speaks” is a simply charming biography of Marie Tharp full of wonderful illustrations. Not only does it inform readers about what she did for women it also gives some key insight into her background and childhood.
A key component in this book is the imagery, which is used to show the events in the biography. One example of this imagery’s power could be the time when Marie Tharp was at the beach as a child through the text had stated that she was enjoying this moment a lot and felt the sand wriggling between her toes, I personally felt like it was the picture that defined the majority of emotion and thought in this piece of text.
Also, the biography part of “Ocean Speaks” definitely shows itself throughout the book. I could see all of her life engraved into this lovely biography. It was all mapped out and explained in the perfect order which made it crystal clear for me to understand and see the world from Marie Tharp’s perspective at the time.
In conclusion “Ocean Speaks” is a bewitching and captivating biography that reflects on the colourful life of Marie Tharp. I would recommend this book to someone who admires the ocean or wants to fight for women’s rights. Why would I recommend this book to others? Well to sum it up, “Ocean Speaks” is a book which talks about the ocean from a different level and perspective. It also talks a lot about the well-known oceanographic cartographer and geologist, Marie Tharp.
This was the first book I read out of the RMBA. I really liked it and how it involved a lot of art, Also about the ocean. And all the diffrent sea creatures. That are in the ocean, and all of there difrent traits. And I would strongly recommend this book.