This book truly appeals to all US West Coast tide pool and aquarium visitors. While designed for 3rd-9th-grade students, it provides all readers with challenging picture caption questions, evocative journal entries and abundant little-known facts. With excellent colour photographs for identifications, space for writing observations, and black and white photographs designed to be coloured in, this highly interactive book that makes learning fun and lasting! Covered are 30 of the most common intertidal animals found along the West Coast from Baja California to Alaska including: crabs, nudibranchs, sea anemones, sea stars, sea urchins, tide pool fish and a wide variety of molluscs.