OCEAN SOUP

Ocean Soup

Tide-Pool Poems

By Stephen R. Swinburne

Illustrated by Mary Peterson

Charlesbridge, 2010

Ages: elementary grades

Poetry

 

The Soup That Bites

"Tide-pool soup is really good,

A most delicious snack.

But careful! When you take a bite,

This soup might bite you back.

Crabs will pinch and urchins poke,

It's rough out there—no joke!"

 This book of rollicking poems presents ten tide-pool animals in witty, irreverent poems, with a section of brief facts about the animal spaced in between the bright...