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K-3
Illustrated by
Consie Powell.
"It's eight o'clock in the salt marsh; / the tide is really low." For each hour of the day, Kurtz provides a rhyme about salt marsh creatures. Powell's detailed paintings, three to a page, show overlapping wide-area, mid-range, and close-up views. The appended text about salt marsh plants and animals is more informative than the sometimes confusing poems.