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The Way of the Weedy Seadragon
Can you imagine a strange and colorful fish that looks like a dragon? It can’t fly or breathe fire, but it is an excellent dancer!
The weedy seadragon is an amazing fish with a talent for camouflage, weird eating habits, and a unique courtship dance. But its habitat and future are threatened. This enchanting story takes you under the sea to meet this mysterious sea creature, and reveals its weird and wonderful ways.
Do you believe in dragons?
Written by Anne Morgan, and beautifully illustrated by Lois Bury, The Way of the Weedy Seadragon invites you to dive into the astonishing life of one of the world’s most curious sea creatures.
The weedy seadragon is an amazing fish with a talent for camouflage, weird eating habits, and a unique courtship dance. But its habitat and future are threatened. This enchanting story takes you under the sea to meet this mysterious sea creature, and reveals its weird and wonderful ways.
Do you believe in dragons?
Written by Anne Morgan, and beautifully illustrated by Lois Bury, The Way of the Weedy Seadragon invites you to dive into the astonishing life of one of the world’s most curious sea creatures.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published May 15, 2021
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May 26, 2021
I love this book. A wonderful mix of expository text and story telling. The illustrations by Lois Bury are utterly exquisite. Do you believe in dragons? What a way to entice the reader into the book. While these dragons may not breathe fire they are just as special. I am thankful that I live near the coastal region Weedy and Leafy Seadragons are found.
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If you are at all interested in what is off the coast of southern Australia there is a crowd funded live streaming camera :
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Let me know what delights you see.
June 11, 2022
The flowing illustrations suit the weedy underwater life of this cleverly camouflaged wonder. A story around their life cycle is perfect for reading with little ones.
Notes at the end provide simple factual information and a map of where they swim. And how we can keep their watery home safe for all the seadragon species.
Notes at the end provide simple factual information and a map of where they swim. And how we can keep their watery home safe for all the seadragon species.
June 28, 2021
The Way of the Weedy Seadragon is a beautifully crafted non fiction book that provides insights into the life and habitat of the weedy seadragon to explore its lifecycle and home beneath the sea.
Through carefully composed text and delicate and supportive illustrations readers will learn about this amazing underwater fish, its ability to camouflage itslef in its weedy world, eating habits and the unique courtship dance and the male seadragon's role and responsibility to fertilise and nurture the eggs to hatching. The last pages present a full page diagram of the seadragon and then information about other species, threats to its survival and suggestions for positive action to protect the marine environment they rely on.
Residing on Bruny Island in Tasmania, Anne Morgan and Lois Bury are surrounded by the sea and this affinity shines through in this book. Morgan's writing, in a narrative style is clear and concise and perfectly pitched to young readers.The font is large, scientific terms are in colour and italics and explained in a glossary. Bury's illustrations are perfect - accurately portraying the seadragon, and its habitat and employing whole page, white space and even a magnifying glass for a close up, to add details to the narrative.
Through carefully composed text and delicate and supportive illustrations readers will learn about this amazing underwater fish, its ability to camouflage itslef in its weedy world, eating habits and the unique courtship dance and the male seadragon's role and responsibility to fertilise and nurture the eggs to hatching. The last pages present a full page diagram of the seadragon and then information about other species, threats to its survival and suggestions for positive action to protect the marine environment they rely on.
Residing on Bruny Island in Tasmania, Anne Morgan and Lois Bury are surrounded by the sea and this affinity shines through in this book. Morgan's writing, in a narrative style is clear and concise and perfectly pitched to young readers.The font is large, scientific terms are in colour and italics and explained in a glossary. Bury's illustrations are perfect - accurately portraying the seadragon, and its habitat and employing whole page, white space and even a magnifying glass for a close up, to add details to the narrative.
August 26, 2021
Evie and I are not very familiar with non-fiction picture books. We have a pop up book about inventions that has always been a favourite to read and discuss, but we both agreed that this beautifully illustrated book about seadragons is very interesting because it’s a story, but the story is true.
Funnily enough, I’ve been engaged in discussions about the importance of these kinds of hybrid texts with colleagues at work and the danger of limiting the scope for teachers if we use narrow categories of text types instead of just speaking broadly about a variety of texts for a range of purposes.
This lovely informative, narrative, conservationist, artistic, factual, whimsical, mystery, adventure book is an excellent example of what happens when you remove all the rules and just let books be books. We thoroughly enjoyed learning about these floaty, sneaky, beautiful creatures.
Funnily enough, I’ve been engaged in discussions about the importance of these kinds of hybrid texts with colleagues at work and the danger of limiting the scope for teachers if we use narrow categories of text types instead of just speaking broadly about a variety of texts for a range of purposes.
This lovely informative, narrative, conservationist, artistic, factual, whimsical, mystery, adventure book is an excellent example of what happens when you remove all the rules and just let books be books. We thoroughly enjoyed learning about these floaty, sneaky, beautiful creatures.
February 20, 2021
A stunning nonfiction picture book. Beautiful, engaging and informative. A winning combo.
May 9, 2021
A visually appealing non-fiction book about weedy seadragons. Very engaging and informative without being too dense for the target age group. Lovely.
September 27, 2021
The Way of the Weedy Sea Dragon is a beautifully illustrated book that teaches children the unusual life cycle of this unique creature. The role of the male in raising their young is particularly interesting. Great care has been taken to ensure scientific accuracy. The need to preserve natural marine environments to ensure species are not lost forever is an important theme. Every school needs at least one copy.
May 23, 2023
I absolutely love the lyrical, dreamy text by Anne Morgan and the exquisite illustrations by Lois Bury, and I learned a lot about the weedy sea dragons of Australia - what a wonderful book for young readers!
January 14, 2023
A terrific book with wonderful illustrations for young (and not so young) readers who have a curiosity about the amazing life that can be found in our oceans.
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