Life in a Coral Reef by Wendy Pfeffer, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (a Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out, Stage 2, book) has colorful, textured collage illustrations that wonderfully match the child-friendly text. The text is written in present tense, which helps the reader feel present in the setting, among the tentacles of the sea anemone with the clown fish or camouflaging ourselves along with the crab. Coral reproduction is touched on and the dangers that the coral reef is facing are mentioned in the end matter.
I highly recommend this book for younger readers. It contains so much valuable information at a good reading level, balanced with plenty of visual interest.
