Pub Date: January 11, 2022
Dewey: 595.389
LCCN: 2021948049
Lexile Code: 0550
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 07 to 10
Physical Info: 0.40" H x 11.10" L x 9.00" W ( 0.92 lbs) 36 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Marine Life | Science and Nature | Zoology | Environmental Science and Ecosystems | Humor | General
Description:
2022 Cybils Award WINNER for Elementary Nonfiction!!!
NYPL best books of 2022
California Eureka Silver Honoree award 2022
"To my delight, your average krill is a far stranger story of metamorphosis than anything our butterflies can come up with." - Elizabeth Bird, A Fuse 8 Production
A fun exploration of a tiny animal at the base of the ocean food chain
Brief description: Matt Lilley (Minneapolis, MN) has a master's degree in scientific and technical communication with a special emphasis on medical writing for kids. A technical writer by day and a children's nonfiction book author by night, he finds that the night work is harder because it requires making complicated topics interesting as well as easy to understand. He is a Minnesota Master Naturalist and likes writing about science and nature as well as medicine. His previous children's books include Why We Love and Why We Cry (Capstone) and Canada Geese and Beavers (in ABDO's "Pond Animals" series).
Review Quotes: [Good Eating] follows the ever-popular (to predators, anyway) Antarctic krill from blobby egg to shrimplike maturity, where they are surrounded by "krillions" of fellow crustaceans and not a few hungry-looking seals, penguins, whales, and fish. Lilley makes jocular observations ("You look kind of buggy, but you're not a bug. / You look kind of shrimpy, but you're not a shrimp.") and comments on successive growth stages, bioluminescence, and this keystone species' role in the Southern Ocean's food chain.--John Peters "Booklist" (1/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)