On a class trip to an aquarium, Miss Smith teaches a lesson about keeping the oceans clean by reading excerpts from stories in her magical book, featuring such characters as Captain Nemo and Robinson Crusoe.

Miss Smith and her class go on a field trip to the aquarium in this fourth picture-book devoted to their bookish adventures. Once there, Miss Smith opens her Incredible Storybook, reading a number of tales - The Owl and the Pussycat, The Little Mermaid, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, Daniel Defoe, Gulliver's Travels and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - that transport the entire class into an ocean adventures...

Although Miss Smith Under the Ocean is the fourth book about these characters from author/illustrator Michael Garland, following upon Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook, Miss Smith Reads Again and Miss Smith and the Haunted Library, it happens to be the first one that I have picked up. I found it engaging, and appreciated the idea, highlighted throughout, that stories have the power to transport us, and to involve us in their adventures. I didn't love the artwork, finding it (as I often do with Garland's books) a little too flat and computer-generated for my taste, but overall I can certainly understand why some of the books in this series have been best-sellers. Recommended to anyone looking for children's stories about the power of stories, and of books. ( )

Miss Smith takes her class on an imagination field trip through Moby Dick, The Little Mermaid, Treasure Island, Long John Silver, Gulliver's Travel and many other stories. The pictures are vibrant and the pictures almost come alive off of the pages.

This book was an easy read! The teacher, Miss Smith, uses her Incredible Storybook to read stories to her students and take them into other worlds. Her stories include stories such as The Owl and the Pussycat, The Little Mermaid, Treasure Island, and Gulliver's Travels. The students navigate through the stories as if they were actually living the tale. As the book unfolds, the students encounter new characters and collect them until the climax of the story when they become stranded on an island and work together to get off. Miss Smith's use of descriptive language allows her students to use their imaginations to transform their living world into fantasy. The children learn a valuable lesson about working together, but get a sense of individuality because they can begin to create personal preferences to become lifelong readers. ( )

This is a good book that contains different visuals and how by telling or listening to different stories one can be part of them and how fun it is. ( )