Brief text and photos introduce the animal inhabitants of the seashore, including fish, crustaceans, snails, and shore birds.

Simple text and pictures describe the life on a seashore.

Crocodiles: Explore the Grumeti River in Tanzania, where cold-blooded crocodiles dominate the waterways and also tenderly protect their young. Observe the primeval instinct of the animal that uses its powerful tail and crushing jaws to kill its prey. Tale of the African tides: Observes the creatures that live along Kenya's shoreline in the Kiunga Marine Reserve and looks at how the tides affect their feeding patterns. Includes the froglike mud-skipper...

"Adam Nicolson, the award-winning author of The Making of Poetry and The Seabird's Cry, explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist's curiosity and a poet's wonder in this beautifully illustrated book"-- Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward...

Which fish can breathe on land? Why do some crabs have to live in other animal's shells? In this book you can find out lots of fascinating facts about the seashore and the creatures that live there.

Examines the food chain at the seashore.

Lift more than 20 flaps and learn about the animals that live at the beach.

Examines small portions of a sandy East Coast beach and a rocky West Coast shore and describes the life they support.

Illustrations and text describe some of the many things that can be found on a walk along a beach, including coconuts, shark teeth, jellyfish, crabs and different kinds of shells.