Book Descriptions
for The Tide Pool Waits by Candace Fleming and Amy Hevron
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A world of sea creatures waits in the warm pools of water left between the rocks after the ocean’s tide recedes. Barnacles and mussels, turban snails and limpets “close up tight” against the heat of the day. Sculpins and opaleye fish conceal themselves in algae and seaweed. An octopus, crabs, and shrimp hide in cracks in the rocks. All are waiting for the tide to return and for the pool to become “part of the sea once more.” With the tide comes all kinds of activity: “Sea anemones bloom,” “shrimp paddle,” “sea slugs slither across sponge.” Barnacles and sea stars and crabs of all kinds scavenge for food, while other animals are swept in by the waves. “Everything is busy. All brim with life.” Until soon, the waves once again crawl out, and the tide pool waits. Acrylic paint illustrations depicting a colorful underwater world accompany a text that reflects the diverse and cyclical activity of tide pool life. Highly Commended, 2023 Charlotte Zolotow Award ©2022 Cooperative Children’s Book Center (Ages 4-8)
CCBC Choices 2023. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Dive into the rich ecology of tide pools and watch a hidden world spring in this masterful nonfiction picture book for very young readers.
Twice a day when the tide goes out, an astonishing world is revealed in the tide pools that form along the Pacific Coast.
Some of the creatures that live here look like stone. Others look like plants. Some move so slowly it’s hard to tell if they’re moving at all, while others are so fast you’re not sure you really saw them. The biggest animals in the pool are smaller than your hand, while the smallest can’t be seen at all without a microscope.
During low tide, all these creatures – big, small, fast, slow – are exposed to air and the sun’s drying heat. And so they have developed ways to survive the wait until the ocean’s return.
Candace Fleming is the author of Honeybee, which received an Orbis Pictus Honor and 7 starred reviews. She brings her knack for making science and nature appealing to the very young in The Tidepool Waits with detailed accounts of dozens of species of sea life, culminating in a perfect primer for students and nature lovers taking their first trip to the shore. Her text is accompanied by effervescent artwork by Amy Hevron and substantial backmatter.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Book
Twice a day when the tide goes out, an astonishing world is revealed in the tide pools that form along the Pacific Coast.
Some of the creatures that live here look like stone. Others look like plants. Some move so slowly it’s hard to tell if they’re moving at all, while others are so fast you’re not sure you really saw them. The biggest animals in the pool are smaller than your hand, while the smallest can’t be seen at all without a microscope.
During low tide, all these creatures – big, small, fast, slow – are exposed to air and the sun’s drying heat. And so they have developed ways to survive the wait until the ocean’s return.
Candace Fleming is the author of Honeybee, which received an Orbis Pictus Honor and 7 starred reviews. She brings her knack for making science and nature appealing to the very young in The Tidepool Waits with detailed accounts of dozens of species of sea life, culminating in a perfect primer for students and nature lovers taking their first trip to the shore. Her text is accompanied by effervescent artwork by Amy Hevron and substantial backmatter.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended Book
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
