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Description
Join Rudy the sea otter and his kelp forest friends as they desperately try to free Rudy from a great big wad of ocean trash (also known as marine debris). Rudy can't swallow. He can't eat. He can hardly even breathe If Rudy can't manage to gobble up his favorite feast of the Sea Urchin Special at the Canopy Caf every single day, those prickly creatures will multiply into an army and chomp down every last blade of kelp in the forest. Without the protective cover of kelp, there will be no place for any of his fellow sea creature friends to live, not even the sea urchins They must figure out a way to free Rudy from the plastic bottle, balloon, fishing net, and shopping bag all tangled around his neck. If they don't, their lush Kelp Forest will turn into a barren wasteland The clock is ticking. Can anyone save the day?
Rudy and the Sea Urchin Special is a heart-warming children's picture book that reminds us that heroes come in all shapes and sizes. This entertaining story and illustrations introduce youngsters to marine ecology and the concept of keystone species. It takes place in the Pacific Ocean.
Rudy and the Sea Urchin Special is Book 1 in the Blue Marble Friends Children's Picture Book Series,
About the Author
Meghan Piercy is a native New Englander whose awe of the sea sprouted on the jetty at Hampton Beach State Park in the 1960s. Her love of marine ecology bloomed in California where she volunteered for three seasons on the Farallon Islands in the mid-1980s. She saw her first sea otter there. She banded her first seabird chick there. She also witnessed for the first time a marine mammal entangled with marine debris there. The story of Rudy and the Sea Urchin Special emerged in part from that experience. Meghan earned a bachelor’s degree in Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Montana. She has worked at sea on ships as a Protected Species Observer in several of the world’s oceans for nearly three decades.