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Bang, Molly , Chisholm, Penny

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas

48 pp. | Scholastic/Blue Sky | May, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-27322-0 $18.99

(2) K-3 This fresh perspective on food chains focuses on the critical and voluminous ocean-based plant life--plankton--and the transfer of energy and nutrients from the sun to these microscopic plants to ocean animals and back. Glowing illustrations, age-appropriate explanations, well-chosen text and visual analogies, and a series of rhetorical questions are used to excellent effect. Six pages of notes are appended.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2012