The Nature Kid's Guide to Seahorses: A Level 2 Reader for Curious Young Kids Who Love Seahorses! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798898182359)

If your child thinks seahorses are just pretty ocean decorations, this book is about to change everything. Seahorse dads carry the babies and can give birth to over a thousand young at once. They have no stomach, so food passes through their body in minutes and they must eat up to 3,000 shrimp a day just to survive. They are the slowest fish in the sea, yet their snout strikes in one millisecond, the fastest ambush of any ocean creature. Mating pairs dance together for up to eight hours straight when they first meet. Pygmy seahorses are smaller than a grape and spend their entire lives on a single piece of coral. Every page delivers something your child will want to run and share.

"The Nature Kid's Guide to Seahorses" is written for curious kids ages 7-12 who want to know the real story behind one of the ocean's most extraordinary animals. How does a fish with no teeth and no stomach manage to eat 3,000 creatures a day? Why do seahorse pairs swim side by side every single morning and change colors together? What makes the ruby sea dragon so mysterious that scientists didn't film a living one until 2016? Your child will find out, and they will never look at a fish tank the same way again.

Short sentences and surprising facts build reading confidence while keeping even older kids hooked from first page to last. Chapters cover seahorses, sea dragons, and pipefish from around the world, including pygmy seahorses, leafy sea dragons, zebra seahorses, and the newly discovered ruby sea dragon.

A book for every kid who has ever looked at a seahorse and thought it couldn't possibly be a real fish.

Seahorses are out there right now drifting through seagrass beds and coral reefs, dancing with their partners and hiding in plain sight. There may be more to discover about them than scientists have figured out yet. That is the kind of wonder that sticks.

Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child is next!