Description
Both study room teachers and vacationing parents will find this little book to be a charmer. Counting from one to 12, Sue picks up shells–periwinkle, kittens paw, scallop–and carefully adds them to her bucket as a gift for Grandma. She and her friend identify the shells, and after they discover one that also has the mollusk living inside of they put it back within the water–learning that shells are in reality the (regularly) abandoned homes of sea animals.The paperback edition accommodates a tear-out shell identification card to toughen the hands-on lesson in simple wonders from nature.