Choosing News: What gets reported and why by Barb.The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician.Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas.It may be most effective as a read aloud so that teachers and librarians may discuss new concepts with students. Ocean Sunlight would serve as an excellent resource for science units on photosynthesis, food chains, or ocean life.
Four pages of authors' notes in the back of the book provide readers with more information about ocean food chains, photosynthesis, marine snow, and a variety of related topics. When the focus turns to the very deepest parts of the ocean, the pages become black with the only light coming from phosphorescent creatures.
The various geometric shapes and sizes will mesmerize young readers. Illustrations of microscopic phytoplankton cover another page. On one page, penguins, sharks and a school of fish swim in the brilliant blue water while the bright sun shines down onto the water's surface. The rich illustrations of ocean life complement the text nicely. The authors point out to readers that unlike seaweed found near the shore, plants in the deepest parts of the ocean are not visible to the naked eye. The book begins with an overview of photosynthesis before examining the ocean food chain. Bangs and Chisholm worked together a few years ago on the nonfiction picture book, Living Sunlight.Ĭhisolm is an expert on phytoplankton, and Ocean Light sheds light (excuse the pun) on how one-celled plants take in the sun's energy and pass it on to animals in the food chain. Ocean Sunlight is one example of a narrative nonfiction title that is both engaging and informative.Īuthor and illustrator, Molly Bangs, has partnered with MIT professor and scientist, Penny Chisholm, to create a nonfiction picture book about the importance of sunlight to plants and animals. The adoption of the Common Core State Standards has teachers and librarians on the lookout for quality nonfiction titles for students.
The reviewer borrowed a copy of the book from her local library. Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seasīlue Sky Press (an imprint of Scholastic), 2012
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