Rescuing Rialto: A Baby Sea Otter's Story

(Hardback)

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Found orphaned and stranded on a beach in Washington on August 2016, Rialto was brought to the Seattle Aquarium, where his rehabilitation and recovery was documented over the course of several months. The resulting photographs offer a rare and breathtaking glimpse into sea otters' growth and development, further enriched by an informative text offering background on these beautiful creatures and their environment-and how they were hunted to near-extinction for their fur, reintroduced to the northwest from Alaska only in recent decades. Few things are more adorable than sea otters-especially baby sea otters! Stunning photographs and timely and topical themes of changing climate and environmental factors make this book appealing to children and adults alike.

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Calling all sea otter fans! - Kirkus

The thorough text is peppered with challenging vocabulary and punctuated by full-color photographs of Rialto. Readers who are interested in sea otters will enjoy the multifaceted storytelling in this book. - School Library Journal

Author Bio

Lynda V. Mapes has written countless stories about nature and the environment in her twenty-two years as a newspaper reporter at The Seattle Times. She is also the author of Witness Tree: The Seasons of Change with a Centure-Old Oak.