This narrative nonfiction on Pacific Coast tide pools is a great read-aloud with text spacing and other cues to provide drama, a perfect accompaniment for the dramatic activity in the tide pool itself.
This book is nonfiction at its best—a combination of beautifully crafted language and astonishing close-up illustrations. Fleming displays admiration for honeybees and conveys enormous respect for their work.
Though Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) "never had an art lesson," as Fleming quotes in her opening author's note, he became a celebrated artist renowned for shadow boxes of carefully curated and assembled objects...