Ocean Soup

By Meeg Pincus, Lucy Semple (illustrator),

Book cover of Ocean Soup: A Recipe for You, Me, and a Cleaner Sea

Book description

From the shore, the ocean looks like clear, sparkling blue but look closely at a small scoop and you'll find the ocean looks more like soup! Our oceans are filled with plastics, from water bottles and take-out containers to the teeny tiny plastic particles you need a microscope to see.…

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1 author picked Ocean Soup as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ocean Soup sneaks up on you—in a good way! The wonderful rhymes draw readers into what seems like a fun story (and it is) but suddenly, the trash that lies beneath the ocean’s surface is revealed, and we learn what a messy soup we humans have made. I love that readers not only learn about environmentalism and conservation, but are also empowered with simple actions they can adopt to help keep our oceans clean.

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