Julia Rothman - Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World Under the Sea

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When the tide was high, we would swim in the bay. For bigger surf, we headed to Jones Beach on Long Island. With each huge wave, my sister and I had three choices: jump over, duck under it, or try to ride it to shore. I can still feel the burning sensation of saltwater going up my nose. My family has always treasured being near the water. My parents still live in that house.

Every summer evening they go down to the beach to join the sunset club, where they chat with neighbors while the waves lap and the sun goes down. Working on my books Farm On Instagram, posts showed kids Anatomy, Nature Anatomy, and learning from them, carrying them Food Anatomy has led me to on nature walks, and copying explore the world in a deeper way. drawings from them. But each book takes over a year to create, and I couldnt imagine I also received handwritten letters doing another one. But then from kids. Some drew me pictures, readers changed my mind.

I received like vegetables growing or flowers emails from people from around in a rainbow of colors. They told the world telling me how much they me which book they liked best or loved the books. what they loved about nature or about their favorite food or animal. I cherish these letters. Twelve-year old Lydia from Maine wrote, Since I was younger, I dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. I think growing up on the coast influenced this.

I love your books and I would really enjoy one called Ocean Anatomy. I was wondering if you ever decided to make another book if you would consider the topic. I thought of my memories of my childhood beach. I thought about the first time I went snorkeling and never heard of nudibranch, giant saw brightly colored fish. I also spider crabs, leafy sea dragons. And thought about climate change and spent nights worrying what what how it was affecting our beautiful would happen to our beautiful oceans oceans and the images I saw of as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch starving polar bears.

But most of grows and turtles confuse plastic all, I thought of Lydia becoming a bags for jellyfish and eat them. marine biologist, and all the children who had written to me, and I decided I hope this book opens your eyes to to do another book. all the incredible sea life we dont even realize is there. I hope this book So here I am. reminds you how much we need to conserve all these fascinating plants I enlisted the help of the wonderful and creatures. I hope more children John Niekrasz who worked with me are inspired to get involved and on Nature Anatomy to collaborate learn how to protect and save our with me again.

He has done extensive marvelous oceans. research on all the plants and animals in the ocean and on the shores. We tried to include as much as we could. Along the way, I learned about so many jaw-dropping animals I had The surface of the ocean reflects the color of the sky. On cloudy days, the ocean appears gray. When sunlight shines on the ocean, water molecules absorb light in the red part of the spectrum first.

Red, orange, and yellow wavelength colors disappear. They act as a filter, leaving behind colors in the blue part of the spectrum. Near the equator, winds from the east blow steadily all the way around the earth. Early sailors from Europe and Africa used these winds and the resulting currents to reach America, allowing them to establish colonies and trading routes. They named these reliable gusts the Trade Winds.