Night Reef: Dusk to Dawn on a Coral Reef

The focus of this book is on photos and text explaining nightlife on a coral reef. The author did an excellent job blending in information about daytime as well, such as explaining that a certain fish was out during the day but is now going into his cave structure to hide at night, so we get a full picture of what each creature is doing 24 hours a day. The photographs are excellent quality and are beautiful. There are long captions for each photo so if your child is younger and won't sit to hear the longer text read aloud, you could just read the long captions and still get a good amount of information.The front and back pages show a map of the world with all the coral reefs and which areas are under threatI found this book interesting as most books on the life of animals on and around a coral reef focus on daytime only. We used this book as part of learning about coral reefs in general, about the Great Barrier Reef, and Australia. The book focuses on coral reefs in general, this is not about just the Great Barrier Reef.