Undersea City: A Story of a Caribbean Coral Reef

by Dana Meachen Rau, Katie Lee (Illustrator)

A hermit crab searching for a new shell is carried by a wave from the shore to a coral reef, where he encounters many different kinds of creatures before trying to make his way back to the shore.

Genres: Nature

27 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Dana Meachen Rau is an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books. She has written more than 100 books for children, many of them nonfiction in subjects including astronomy, history, and geography, as well as numerous biographies. She lives in Burlington, Connecticut, with her husband and two children.

Reviews

[Themountainbookie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love that so many different species are on each page. We have leaned so much about wildlife from this book. The book follows along a hermit crab as he searches for a new shell.

[Katie Zebrowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute story of a hermit crabs journey on Sanoa Island. Love the pull out glossary with illustrations of animals that inhabit the island. I loved seeing the beautiful illustrations of Sanoa Island (which I hadn't heard about before reading this book). A lovely book for the animal lovers in your classroom.

[Bethany · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book came with a puppet of a hermit crab to help tell the story. Fun book to teach about life under the sea and how a hermit crab lives. The puppet is my favorite part!

Topic: sea life in the ocean, habitats, hermit crab
Grade: 3-4