Oceans Month Books!

I love June! Pride, summer solstice, the sun! All  good things! It's also Oceans Month! Yay! I live there!
To commemorate the occasion, here are some of my recent ocean reads!

Spineless by Juli Berwald

 Isn't the cover pretty! I love it!

This one is about jellies. Jellies are not fish, so jellyfish is not the right term anymore. Jellies are almost completely water, sort of like watermelons (that's a big SORT OF). Jellies are weird. Read a book about them!

The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation by

Kate Messner and,

 

Matthew Forsythe

Ah man, we are killing the oceans. That's a fact. Thankfully, people are trying to restore coral reefs by other means. This book gives us some hope where there is little. I do love a good non-fiction picture book about our oceans. The illustrations are gorgeous too!

Shine! 

by 

Patrick McDonnell,

 

Naoko Stoop

Goodreads has a great summary, so I'll just share that.

"Hoshi the sea star looks up in the sky and sees the stars shining. She wishes that she too could be in the sky amongst the brilliant stars--and as she imagines how much better it would be up in the air, she fails to appreciate the beautiful world that surrounds her underwater. It takes Hoshi's friends, old and new, to help her realize that her shine comes from within."

This book makes my heart warm. It is a sweet story. <3 

This one is a middle-grade fiction about a young Fidelia who has been in love with the ocean her whole life, and is lucky enough to have two marine biologist/zoologist parents with a boat, and a huge grant to explore and document the ocean's marine wealth. 

 Here's the written description: 

"When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven-year-old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief — and guilt. It was a submarine of Fidelia’s invention that her parents were in when they died, and it was she who pressed them to stay out longer when the raging Undertow was looming. But Fidelia is forced out of her mourning when she’s kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of treasons stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. But as Fidelia and the pirates close in on the prize, with the navy hot on their heels, she realizes that Merrick doesn’t expect to live long enough to enjoy his loot. Could something other than black-hearted greed be driving him? Will Fidelia be able to master the perils of the ocean without her parents — and piece together the mystery of Merrick the Monstrous before it’s too late? 

Join Fidelia on her epic adventure! It's well-worth the reading journey for the treasure of learning about our oceans, and how modern-day biologists are documenting our oceans. 

Here's one last read for you!

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcolmbe

Another fabulous non-fiction, this book tells you everything you've ever wondered about fish, and it might make you want to stop eating fish. Sorry. Haha. 

Give it a try! Great stufffffsssss.

-WhaleSnark