cover image Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers

Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers

Jerry Pallotta. Charlesbridge Publishing, $7.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-88106-150-5

After exploring the water's depths to the tune of ABC in Ocean Alphabet, Jerry Pallotta and artist Shennen Bersani now tackle 1, 2, 3 (or rather, 1, 3, 5) in Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers. From one Striped Bass all the way to 49 Smelts (and then 50 Blue Sharks, with a caveat), the salty scenes are alternately serene and menacing. .