Good Eating: The short life of Krill, Matt Lilley illustrated by Dan Tavis

Just 2 inches long and full-grown, this little guy is the foundation of the Southern Ocean food chain... "Hi. What are you? You appear to be an egg. You are an egg sinking. For many days, you sink. You sink a mile down, and you keep sinking down down until "

The unidentified narrator follows one krill among billions as it pursues its brief existence, eating and eating while metamorphosing from one thing into another and trying to avoid being eaten. Questions and advice are hurled at the krill on every page, but the krill never responds because, after all, krill can't talk, and this is nonfiction. Krill are the largest animals able to catch and eat phytoplankton, and they in turn are eaten by the largest animals ever to live on earth-blue whales-as well as by seals, penguins, and a host of others. In other words, krill are really good at eating, and they make really good eating.

Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 7 to 10.