Environmental Science & Ecosystems, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Marine, Lake & Wetland Ecology, Ecology - General & Miscellaneous, Ecosystems

Ocean Seasons

Name: Ocean Seasons
Author: Ron Hirschi
ISBN: 9780977742325

by Ron Hirschi, Kirsten Carlson (Illustrator), Kirsten Carlson

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Overview

Seasons change in the ocean much as they do on land. Spring brings new plants and baby animals, summer oceans glow with sparkly plankton lights, and autumn winds blow across the open water. In winter, the humpback whales migrate to warmer waters, just as some land animals move to warmer climates. The cycle begins again as they return to the northern waters in the spring. In fun, fanciful form, Ocean Seasons introduces plants and animals that are joined through the mix of seasons, food webs, and habitats beneath the waves.

2008 ForeWord Book of the Year Award finalist (ForeWord Magazine),
2008 Florida Publishers Association Best Picture Book Finalist, Bank Street 2008 “Best Children’s Books of the Year” selection, 2008 Florida Recommended Summer Reading List
Reviewed by: ForeWord, Science Books & Films, School Library Journal, National Wildlife Federation’s Your Big Backyard Magazine, The Horn Book Guide, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

4-6 pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
40-60 pg cross-curricular Teaching Activities and 3 Interactive Quizzes available free on the book’s homepage
eBooks with Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and selectable English and Spanish text and audio

About the Author, Ron Hirschi

Ron Hirschi (Ocean Seasons) lives on a small island in western Washington and walks the beach most days of the year. As a biologist, he also spends much time on the water, learning about and helping salmon and other aquatic fish and wildlife. As an author, he brings the excitement of what he learns onto the pages of books for young readers. Ron has written over 50 children’s books. His books have been listed as Best Science Trade Books of the year, and won the John Burroughs Nature Book among other awards. Several of his books have been featured on Reading Rainbow. In addition to writing, Ron enjoys working directly with kids and takes them outside during his many school visits. They net fish to study water quality or search for frogs and salamanders in small ponds. They also study ocean life and it was on a trip to the beach with a group of elementary students that he got the idea for this book. Ron helped to raise the funds to purchase a tidal wetland that is now an environmental learning center and critical habitat for endangered salmon. His book, Salmon, remains a fund raiser for this (Nick’s Lagoon) project.

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Kirkus Reviews

Unfurling the observation that seasonal cycles aren't solely land-based phenomena, veteran naturalist Hirschi sails readers from one spring to the next along the northern Pacific coast. His text offers brief commentary on Carlson's clear-toned, full-spread marine scenes-of kelp being eaten by urchins, which are in turn eaten by sea otters; of plankton blooms, salmon runs and seabirds; of humpback whales feeding on schools of small fish, turning southward when the surface temperature cools to calve in tropical waters, then returning northward "as sea plants begin to spread their sparkling growth once again." Two spreads of fact "cards" (reproducible from the publisher's website for cutting out) add further value to this excursion into the natural world. (Picture book/nonfiction. 6-8)