Scholastic Ocean Sunlight by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

A six-page epilogue, dense with more sophisticated information and keyed to thumbnails from the illustrations, answers questions the text might raise. Scholastic has leveling information, and a quick search brings up all.

It's a thorough but accessible explanation of an ecosystem-cycle that most kids won't have thought much about previously, and the details of creepy lightless life and nutritious 'marine snow' (tiny flakes of 'poop and mucus, carcasses and guts') bring the eWho-eats-whom sequences (a killer whale begins to chomp down on a seal who's biting down on one of a flock of penguins, who are swallowing up fish, who are chowing down on phytoplankton) vividly bring the message home on many of the spreads. Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm - The Fantastic Undersea Life of. Ocean Sunlight, Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm (2012) The Camping Trip that Changed.

Bang and Chisholm then explain the oceanic food chain, including the ways that creatures consume energy when they're living too deep for phytoplankton or the sun's rays. In this timely book, acclaimed Caldecott artist Molly Bang and award-winning M.I.T. is bubbling out of all the tiny phytoplankton floating in your seas'). Starting with the sun ('All ocean life depends on me') and basic concepts of photosynthesis, the book then explores the crucial role of marine plant life, explaining that even though you don't see phytoplankton (formerly known as algae), it's absolutely vital ('HALF the oxygen you breathe every day.

Following up her energy-based science picture books My Light (BCCB 3/04) and Living Sunlight (BCCB 4/09), Molly Bang, along with co-author Penny Chisholm, turns her attention to the seas. Three-time Caldecott Honor artist Molly Bang and award-winning scientist Penny Chisholm celebrate the wonder of energy.

Scholastic Ocean Sunlight by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm