Coral Reefs: A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder

This was so well done. A girl is looking at this book in the library about the coral reefs. As she is reading it, her imagination takes over and all these facts about the ocean begin to appear and the room fills with water and she and her book are swimming all over the ocean. We learn about fish cit......more

This book is utterly delightful. I’ve always had an obsession with sea coral. My first experience that I can remember with sea coral was when my then boyfriend gifted me with a vivid pink piece of coral. I was about 10 or 11 at the time. Yeah, this was a little childhood romance that I had. But it wa......more

Like Chin’s book Redwoods, this book has a fictional story within the non-fiction book and marvelous illustrations. When a young girl in the NYC public library pulls a book about coral reefs (this very one) off the shelves and reads it, she falls right into the book, into the coral reef. The page wh......more

First things first. Let's just get something out the way here before I go any further. I am not exactly a disinterested party when it comes to this book. No, I don't know the author personally (though we did meet once). No, I never saw an early manuscript or offered helpful criticisms when the text......more