The Secret Bay (Tilbury House Nature Book)

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Synopsis

AWARDS: *Moonbeam Silver*, *John Burroughs Association Riverby 2016 Award*

Estuaries form where river meets sea and fresh water mixes with salt. Teeming with life, these places of salt marshes, mudflats, and tidal backwaters serve as nursery areas for oceangoing fish, migratory stopovers for shorebirds, and homes for an amazing diversity of snails, bivalves, fish, mammals, horseshoe crabs, fiddler and blue crabs, terrapin turtles, plankton, and many others, all of whom we meet in the pages of this delightful book.

Narrated in the poetic voice of the estuary itself, and accompanied by natural-history sidebars about estuary plants, animals, and cycles, THE SECRET BAY is another topnotch nature book from the author and illustrator of the award-winning, bestselling The Secret Pool.

A stand-alone book and a stunning companion volume to Ridley and Raye’s award-winning Secret Pool. Ridley deftly augments the estuary’s lyrical narrative voice with sidebars about the plants, animals, and natural processes of an estuary. Raye’s gorgeous watercolors reveal new features and hidden treats with each reading. Back matter includes The Estuary Food Web, Great Escapes (how estuary animals avoid predators), and an author’s note about the challenges facing estuaries. A perfect book for the budding naturalist and for his or her parents and teachers.

Fountas & Pinnell Level S Lexile 1180

Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
40 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780884484349
Related ISBNs:
9780884484332, 9780884487517
Publisher:
Tilbury House Publishers
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Kimberly Ridley, Rebekah Raye
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Nonfiction, Animals, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences
Grade Levels:
First grade, Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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