Young readers who are curious about disasters will like this twentieth title in the “Disaster Alert!” series created by Crabtree Publishing Company. This title will help young book report writers in the school setting, with distinct sections about the disaster, the oil spill, the blowout, as well as marine, wildlife, and human disaster; but the graphic layout distracts from the dramatic visuals. Photos such as a brown pelican drenched in oil and the oil worker clearing muck are lost or covered by words.