“You still have no mouth. Aren’t you getting hungry?
Maybe you’re not hungry yet, but those fish down there look hungry. What do they eat?”
Good Eating: The Short Life of Krill is out! Good Eating follows the life of one krill, as it metamorphoses from a “six-armed oval” into a 26-legged glutton, and as it rises from the ocean’s deep midnight zone to the surface, encountering all sorts of hungry sea creatures as it grows. Antarctic krill can catch and eat one-celled phytoplankton, and they in turn are eaten by the largest animals ever to live on earth―blue whales―as well as by seals, penguins, and a host of others. In other words, krill are really good at eating, and they make really good eatin’. That makes them a keystone species of the Southern Ocean. Good Eating has been reviewed and endorsed by global krill expert Dr. Stephen Nichol, and the manuscript earned an honorable mention in Minnesota’s McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers.
Illustrated by Dan Tavis.
Buy Good Eating from your local independent book shop, such as Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, MN. Or order online from sites such as Bookshop.org. For signed copies, just send me a message.
Also available internationally at sites such as Booktopia.com.
Download the Reader’s Guide for teachers.
Print a Coloring Sheet with art from the book.
Completed paper krill
Make your own paper krill! Designed by Claire Sives for livingdata.net.au