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Sockeye's Journey Home: The Story of a Pacific Salmon
32 pp.
| Soundprints |
July, 2000 |
TradeISBN 1-56899-829-5$$15.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Joanie Popeo.
Despite dangers such as seals, bald eagles, bears, and fishing nets, there is not much tension in this story as Sockeye the salmon makes his way through Puget Sound and up the Cedar River to his spawning grounds. His journey is illustrated in adequate realistic paintings. An afterword presents information about the environmental impact of human construction and development on the salmon. Glos.