"This -factual and life-affirming book celebrates our ocean and reminds us to keep it healthy and wild." -School Library Journal (starred review)
The renowned creators of One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth follow up with a lyrical book exploring the wild wonders of the sea-and how the oceans of our big blue planet converge as one, teeming with life.
Two children and their grandmother discover a "sea heart" on the beach: a smooth, round bean the size of one child's palm, which has traveled the world on the Gulf Stream's current. The trio traces the bean's wondrous journey on a map-through seagrass meadows brimming with turtles and tiger sharks, coral reefs, underwater mountains traversed by whales, and kelp forests bobbing with seals-until it washes up, a full year later, on their rainy beach in Scotland.
Narrative nonfiction at its best and most beautiful, this companion to One World from zoologist Nicola Davies and award-winning artist Jenni Desmond is a fluid, well-researched story about the way currents connect us all to the vast ocean that colors our planet blue. Tackling, too, the global impact of humans on the ocean-especially the perils of plastic-the book employs fascinating facts, gentle urgency, and specific conservation success stories to point a wise and hopeful path forward.
| ISBN: | 9781536242959 |
| Publication date: | 21st July 2026 |
| Author: | Nicola Davies |
| Illustrator: | Jenni Desmond |
| Publisher: | Candlewick Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 40 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Wildlife and habitats: Oceans and seas Educational: Environmental science Educational: Earth sciences Ecological and Environmental Interest - Non Fiction Children’s / Teenage general interest: Fish and marine life |
The trio traces the bean's wondrous journey on a map-through seagrass meadows brimming with turtles and tiger sharks, coral reefs, underwater mountains traversed by whales, and kelp forests bobbing with seals-until it washes up, a full year later, on their rainy beach in Scotland. Narrative nonfiction at its best and most beautiful, this companion to One World from zoologist Nicola Davies and award-winning artist Jenni Desmond is a fluid, well-researched story about the way currents connect us all to the vast ocean that colors our planet blue.
One Ocean features in the following genres: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Wildlife and habitats: Oceans and seas, Educational: Environmental science, Educational: Earth sciences, Ecological and Environmental Interest - Non Fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Fish and marine life
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One Ocean was written by Nicola Davies and published by Candlewick Press
One Ocean has 40 pages