Book In Review

        Between The Tides, a book for young readers, explains to children in easy to understand terms the eternal push and pull of the tide; and, the effect that it has on the creatures of the sea.

         Author Fran Hodgkins wrote a fun book about the survival skills that all sea creatures have adapted to continue to live when the tide comes in and when the tide goes out.  The illustrations are beautiful.  Jim Sollers illustrated the book. 

          Between the words and the pictures; it makes a typical day at the seashore much more interesting.  A child can use their imagination to wonder what is beneath the water’s cool, blue and green surface.  With the information in the book, they can understand how everything in the sea can find a way to work with nature and survive when their environment changes. 

         At the end of the book, it tells the story behind the story, of the moon and earth’s tug of war which causes the changes in the tide every 12 hours.  Very fun and interesting book for young readers.

         The book was copyrighted in 2007 and was published by Down East Books; their website is : www.downeastbooks.com.