Florida's Fabulous Seashells: And Other Seashore Life

I loved the book. It is a terrific reference about seashells and Florida seashore life. It brought up many memories for me when I grew up next to the sea. The only disappointment is that this particular book had annoying water damage causing the pages to stick and were destroyed when I tried to separate them.

My five-year old loves loves visiting her grandparents in Naples, FL. Her two favorite activities are swimming and collecting shells along the beach shore. This wonderfully informative, thorough, and beautifully illustrated guide has helped her (and me) to learn all about the various sea shells that are native to Florida. I have looked at other books about seashells but this one is by far, the BEST! If you are planning a trip to Florida and you enjoy collecting sea shells, this one is the only guide you'll need! Btw, we paid the same price for one from the Audobon Society but it left out too many common ones found in FL like kitten's paw ! I look forward to reading the other books in this wonderful series.

If you want to know your whelks from your wentletraps from your limpets, then this book can help. Besides gorgeous color photos of shells, it gives lots of info (helpfully boxed for easy reading). Find out why left-handed shells are an oddity, how to make coquina broth, why you hear the sea when you put a shell to your ear and other tidbits. The book includes "Other Seashore Life," so browsers discover the varieties of crabs, hard-tube worms, sea anemones, sea slugs, starfish and sea beans. It even discusses sharks teeth, fossil shells and different colored beach sands. Really a great book for beach trips on both an adult level and to use with children. The colorful photos and odd facts will grab their imagination, getting them interested in nature.

I put this book in my suitcase every time I vacation in Florida. It's perfect for the casual (but enthusiastic!) beach comber, containing many color photos of Florida shells along with brief but interesting and informative passages on each type of shell. This book is an easy and enjoyable read for all ages, and is NOT a dry, encyclopedic identification guide. The book also contains information on the creatures found in and near the surf, like crabs, jellyfish, etc. And, best of all, many mysterious beach finds are identified for you: sea pork, sea beans, devil's purse and so on. Just about anything and everything you find on a Florida beach is identified, from seaweed to seashells. (The exception being birds, but there is a separate book for that!) If you are vacationing on Sanibel Island, this is a great shell guide.

I'm a Michigan snowbird. I didn't know one shell from another until I purchased this highly interesting, informative book. I have derived many hours of pleasure from looking at the colorful, spectacular photgraphs of the amazing creatures that make the depicted shells. When one combines these with a text that is readable, finely detailed, and which closely follows the photographs, a book that should be part of any Florida visitor's library is obtained. Get it, and read it, before you go, and enhance your trip!!I might note that my high recommendation extends to all books in this series. Since purchasing this and other volumes in the series, I have been able to discard a lot of lesser quality materials purchased on earlier trips, and yet increase the quality of my library.

We use this book on all trips to the beach. I am now purchasing 4 for gifts. It contains wonderful photos and descriptions of Florida shells, as well as, where to find them, and how to clean them. It gives great quick information regarding much of Florida's Seashore Life. It is an excellent reference- written well for a quick reference. I thumb through the beautiful photos over and over and never get bored! Truly a 5 star book at a very reasonable price.