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Barnacle Bay
By (Author) Jana Curll
Greystone Books,Canada
Greystone Books,Canada
30th July 2025
Canada
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Fish and marine life
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Wildlife and habitats: Oceans and seas
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Ecosystems
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous
Paperback
76
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
For fans of Narwhal and Jelly, this hilarious new graphic novel from the Little Habitats series explores the ecosystem of a bay and the marine creatures and plant life that call it home.
Crab is fed up with the bay. Each day is the same; nobody cares for him or appreciates his sense of humor. So he's leaving. Just when he is about to go, he bumps into Larva, who is looking for a home. Crab agrees to show Larva around the bay, exploring its many places and residents, on his way out.
Together, Crab and Larva visit the sea kelp, a fine shell-ection of oysters, mussels, clams, and a bickering group of sea anemones, amongst many more neighbors in the bay.
Will Larva find the perfect spot to settle here And if he does, what will Crab do
Designed for kids aged 6-9, Barnacle Bay features:
Packed with humor, playful jokes, and fun facts about marine life, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel dives into the fascinating world hidden within this tiny, often overlooked, ecosystem.
Book 1 in the Little Habitats series!
This series of graphic novels for young readers introduces children to nature's small and vital ecosystems. Full of humor and hijinks, each book in the series features a heartwarming story set in a different habitat, with accompanying fact pages throughout.
Jana Curll (she/her) is an illustrator and graphic designer based on the West Coast of Canada. She wanders, creates and raises her family on the traditional territories of the shishlh Nation, on the coastline of the Salish Sea. She has worked as a designer at Science World, Vancouver, and as an associate art director at Kidzsmart Communications. Her illustrators have appeared on books, magazines, toys, activity books, apps, maps, and everything in between. Jana is the 2021 winner of the SCBWI's Don Freeman illustrator grant.