For the person who had a little one asked about the giant squid like creature ,,,
the most accepted
spelling is actually 'kraken' and there is a popular picture book written by Gary
Crew and Marc
McBride with this title and subject
http://www.amazon.com/Kraken-Gary-Crew/dp/0734401825 According
to Amazon it's out of print but you could probably get it from an Australian
supplier. If you
search Amazon using that spelling you will get a few titles (don't know about their
suitability) but
there is a lot on the World Wide Web with that spelling.
Also, if you search for "giant squid" + dissection you will find a number of
stories about a real
kraken that was found off the Western Victorian coast recently
"The 245kg 12-metre long squid was caught by the crew of fishing trawler Zeehan off
Portland in
western Victoria after it became entangled in a net 550 metres below the surface."
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=598344&rss=yes
There's another one about a New Zealand catch at
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=44&objectid=10506755
Hope this helps your little fellow. Maybe he can contact one the Melbourne Museum
and ask what they
discovered.
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
AUSTRALIA
E. barbara.288@bigpond.com
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