Seashore of Northern & Central California

by Ian Sheldon

This pocket-sized illustrated guide helps unlock the mysteries of the diverse and abundant life of the Northern and Central California coastline. Artist and naturalist Ian Sheldon accurately and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551051443
• ISBN13: 9781551051444
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Lone Pine International
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Wunnerful, Wunnerful Wonders of the Sea

I became aware of this excellent book thanks to another visitor to Pescadero State Beach Park. She was using it to send some children on a "treasure hunt" in the tide pools (she had scoped it out first and then would show the children a picture of the critter and send them out to find out which tide pool (or pools) it was in). Great idea for how to introduce kids to these forms of life which are among the earliest to have developed! Get this book and the Shape of Life dvd series and you and your kids will be well on your way to understanding how life developed and branched out into different forms.

A Marvelous Guide with Great Art, too!

Mr. Sheldon is a master at depicting the beauty of tidepool creatures while also rendering a very accurate image. In the same tradition as Sibley, he has chosen artistic representations over photos. This makes it very easy to identify creatures as he has been able to select out the useful characteristics for identification. Not only are his drawings excellent, but he has also done a great job of representing those animals and algaes that one actually finds on the central coast. The descriptions he has written are interesting and engaging without talking down to the reader. I often take this book with me when I take my sixth-grade science students out to the tidepools. I am constantly amazed at how much the students love to look up and read about what they find in this book. I recommend this book over any other tidepool guide that I have seen.