Sea Without a Shore

Life in the Sargasso

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Pub Date Sep 10 2024 | Archive Date Aug 31 2024
W. W. Norton & Company | Norton Young Readers

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Description

A single piece of seaweed buoys a fascinating ecosystem in this nonfiction picture book from award-winning creators Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy.

From bryozoans and snails to shrimps, eels, swordfish, and whales, the Sargasso Sea provides a home to countless types of marine life, thanks to the prevalence of microalgae called sargassum. Following a single blade of this extraordinary seaweed as it grows and spreads, readers see what it provides for the sea’s organisms: a base for hydroids and tube worms to filter and feed, shelter for anemones and nudibranchs and their nutritious waste, hunting grounds for crabs and amphipods, and a source of nourishment and protection for the fish, birds, whales, and reptiles that feed on these smaller creatures.

Through a widening scope on this intricate interdependence, Barb Rosenstock celebrates one of our planet’s most diverse and important ecosystems and the unassuming seaweed that sustains it. Gorgeously illustrated with Katherine Roy’s rich, eye-catching artwork, Sea Without a Shore is as fluid and rhythmic as the currents that shape this tidal home.

About the Author: Barb Rosenstock is the author of several children's books, including The Noisy Paint Box, which received a Caldecott Honor. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Katherine Roy is the creator of the Sibert Honor Book Neighborhood Sharks and, most recently, Making More. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

A single piece of seaweed buoys a fascinating ecosystem in this nonfiction picture book from award-winning creators Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy.

From bryozoans and snails to shrimps, eels...


Advance Praise

"clear, punchy prose... In carefully drafted naturalistic watercolors, Roy (The Fire of Stars) paints the sargassum floating in the blue sea as sunlight streams down, then focuses on the tiny creatures that settle upon it, in turn supporting more sophisticated life-forms... Around a series of ever larger creatures depicted—fish, turtles, and whales, all sustained by sargassum-supported life—are images of people of various skin tones interacting with the algae. Ample back matter concludes." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"clear, punchy prose... In carefully drafted naturalistic watercolors, Roy (The Fire of Stars) paints the sargassum floating in the blue sea as sunlight streams down, then focuses on the tiny...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781324016076
PRICE $18.99 (USD)
PAGES 32

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This book is beautiful. I absolutely love the illustrations, which, to be honest, was half of the reason I wanted to read this book. This was an excellent pairing between Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy that shows how many species depend on something as simple as seaweed. Creating an ecosystem in and around itself. Well done!

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