Whale Fall Café

By Jacquie Sewell

Book Overview

When a whale carcass lands on the deep ocean floor, a caf? opens for business, and the diners don't stop rooting their way through the menu until the cupboards are bare.

Hagfish, zombie worms, sleeper sharks--this group of patrons is stranger than the denizens of the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars. A fish in a lab coat, piloting a deep-sea submersible, is our guide to the weirdly fascinating goings-on miles beneath the ocean surface.

The backmatter includes rare whale-fall photos from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek of MBARI and Dr. Craig Smith, a deep-ocean ecologist at the University of Hawaii, have helped Jacquie Sewell to ensure scientific accuracy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884488489
• ISBN13: 9780884488484
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5