Glenda Kane — Mangrove
Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited 2007 Stapled, 28pp. You'll feel the mud squeeze between your toes And a funny smell will go up your nose When you look at the mangrove you just might spy Some sideways crabs as they scurry by This unique and quite exceptional children's picture book describes the life-cycle of a mangrove with charming rhyming text and beautiful illustrations. The hero of the story is really the mangrove tree. This is a very well thought-out concept and comfortably crosses between fiction and non-fiction. Mangroves show the fragility of our ecosystems. Large. Some fading on spine. (ISBN: 9780143502043). Good.