{"product_id":"one-ocean-a-journey-beneath-the-waves","title":"One Ocean: A Journey Beneath the Waves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This ­factual and life-affirming book celebrates our ocean and reminds us to keep it healthy and wild.\" --\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe renowned creators of \u003ci\u003eOne World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo 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 \u003ci\u003eOne World\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eemploys fascinating facts, gentle urgency, and specific conservation success stories to point a wise and hopeful path forward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53928845836656,"sku":"9781536242959","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_e84a4cb2-c554-4810-b784-4ce839c02132.jpg?v=1781981785","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/one-ocean-a-journey-beneath-the-waves","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}