Outstanding illustrations: gorgeous and wonderfully detailed.
This book was published in 2009 and the ocean book was published in 2012. I'm Queer.I deliberately also read Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas the same day as I read this book. Appropriate for ages 5-8.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Īrchives Archives Categories Categories Tags adventures African-Americans American history animals art artists bears bedtime biographies birds bullying cats community creativity death diversity dogs emotions fairy tales families fantasy fathers food friendship friendships grandparents grief historical fiction history humor imagination LGBTQ magic mothers music mysteries nature pets poetry rabbits racism romance school science science fiction seasons self esteem siblings toddlers trees Blogroll It’s a readable and very understandable look at the complex systems that make our lives possible. This book is a tribute to science and nature. The entire book sings with energy and light. Then the energy of the sun dances above the waves in yellow dots. When the phytoplankton are displayed, Chisholm shows them up close in all of their wonderful detail. Everywhere, even in the darkness, you can see the energy of the sun. It is a celebration of the sun and of the oceans themselves too.Ĭhisholm’s art ranges from the glow of the yellow sun to the black deep of the ocean. The book is written from the point of view of the sun itself and how its energy reaches everywhere on earth. Her tone is inviting, inquisitive and filled with wonder at the amazing things that happen due to our sun. It is beautiful science.īang successfully combines poetry and science in this enticing picture book.
The food chain is shown and the book then turns to the darkness of the deep and how the food chain works even in blackness. Then she shows the tiny phytoplankton that make up the plants of the sea. Bang asks where the green plants in the ocean are except for the seaweed. The story starts with photosynthesis and food chains on dry land, then moves to the water. Here, the focus is on the ocean and the role that sunlight plays even in the darkest depths of the sea. Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholmįollowing her Living Sunlight book, this continues the story of how the sun makes life on earth possible.
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