Barnard's research is always spot on, and the book is visually interesting. Glossary of terms and additional resources in the back matter.

An important read for everyone. Enlightening, eye-opening, depressing and a little hopeful, all at once. Read this with my kid and we learned so much.

For such a short and simple book, it packs a pretty big horrifying punch. Through the stories of six ocean creatures, Bryn Barnard tells the larger tale of the changing ocean and in so doing makes it abundantly clear that the entire planet lies in the balance. Of course, it's not all doom and gloom. The jellyfish and blue algae will win out. Too bad for the rest of us, though. The final, most chilling thought that the reader is left with is that it may already be too late. Hundreds or thousands of years too late. Yikes.

Beautiful and chilling. Awful and amazing.

Alarming and a total wake up call, perfect for conservationists and middle reader classrooms. A great read for any time of year, but especially Earth Day and summer.

Informative and interesting. Mother Earth is f*cked.

I thought at first that this book had an unfortunate layout. There are LOTS of words on the pages, and the pages are large. The pictures are good, but I was afraid that the text would overwhelm them. To my surprise, the text was quite readable and interesting. The choices of living things to discuss were good: some are flourishing because of pollution, warming, and acidification, while others are suffering. The book gives a good perspective on change, in that it may throw off a delicate balance in different ways for different animals/plants.

Enjoyable and valuable, though saddening in many ways. We are such poor stewards of our Earth.

Hard to rate this...it's set up as a children's book, but it definitely doesn't read as a children's book. Illustrations are beautiful. Comes off a bit preachy a times.