Ocean Babies

Written by Deborah Lee Rose and Illustrated by Hiroe Nakata

"Big as a bus and smaller than seeds, billions of babies are born in the ocean...."

This opening line and later refrain entices readers into a magical, real-life world. Ocean Babies presents the animal babies of the ocean. The giant blue whale contrasts with tiny coral polyps, sea horses pop from their fathers' pouches, and bat rays spread wing fins to fly through the ocean for the first time. Did you know that sea otter pups are helpless at birth and need to learn to swim from their parents? Did you know that orca babies look exactly like their parents, while baby emperor angelfish change colors completely in adulthood?

Children see an array of charmingly illustrated ocean babies with their parents and also get a gentle introduction to animal life strategies and patterns, such as migration and predation.