Flippers and Fins by Tessa Miller is an awesome book about how humans are inspired by nature to make useful new inventions. The book is about different products we have today that are being improved and things that are being worked on. There are parts about fish inspired boats, whale inspired wind turbines, shark inspired swimsuits and cephalopod inspired camouflage. There were boats made in the shape of fish to help them go faster. Bumps were put on wind turbines to help them spin faster. A new type of fabric was designed to be like shark skin and allow people to swim faster. New camouflage is being made to work like cephalopods such as Octopi and change colors. This book has many features including a table of contents, fullpage pictures, an index, a page of websites to get more information from and a glossary. This book is written very well making it very easy to read. All the information is thorough, well explained and easy to understand. If you like to read about innovative ideas and new inventions I would highly recommend this book to you.

Review by Janelle