Prickly Sea Stars by Natalie Lunis

This book is part of the No Backbone! series that focuses on invertebrates.  The book offers fascinating glimpses of the world of sea stars or starfish.  Take a close look at the eyespots that sea stars use to see on the tips of their rays.  Or be amazed at the way that starfish eat by pushing their stomachs out of their mouths and into the shells of clams and mussels.  Readers will also be astounded by the colors and textures of these animals.

The glory of this book is the photography which offer close examination of sea stars in all of their variety.  The images are bright, clear and illustrative of the points being made in teh text.  The text of this nonfiction book is accessible, friendly, and interesting.  It will be appropriate for first and second grade readers to read on their own, but interested children as young as 3 and 4 would be able to learn all sorts of facts when it is read aloud to them.