Start Small, Think Big: Tiny, Floating Coral

The third book in our Start Small, Think Big series that sets young readers on a journey of discovery, beginning from the small and familiar to new areas of knowledge where you really have to think big!

Tiny, Floating Coral starts with a tiny coral planula floating through the ocean in a soup of plankton, looking for a place to settle, divide and grow. It finds a place on a healthy reef off the coast of Australia. Learn about this remarkable animal, how it feeds, starts a colony and becomes a part of the Great Barrier Reef – a vast underwater city where other animals live, feed and bring up their young. The story’s narrative progresses in a way that builds understanding, and the delicate illustrations bring the story to life. 

Thinking BIG, the book highlights that 25 per cent of marine life relies on the world’s coral reefs, and at the back the big fold-out map shows where they are. There is also an illustrated life cycle, and an Animal I-Spy to take children back into the book to find the reef animals.

Good for…

• children 4 to 8

• primary science: the life cycle of coral, marine food webs, metamorphosis, fluorescence, and other life processes, the role reefs play in a healthy ocean

• Clear narrative text with two levels - main text written in the first-person for emerging readers, and additional information for confident readers or shared reading

• Textured cover with a cut-through, a big fold-out with world map and an I-Spy game

• Beautiful illustrations: a blend of non-fiction realism and picture-book beauty

230mm x 230mm hardback with textured cover and cut-through hole, 28 pages including a 6-page fold-out

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