America's Seashores

Discover the remarkable biodiversity of North America's coastal ecosystems with this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated field guide. America's Seashores takes readers on an exploration of diverse seashore habitats—from rocky coastlines and sandy beaches to tide pools, coastal marshes, and barrier islands—revealing how each unique environment sustains different communities of plants and animals adapted to life where land meets sea.

Through stunning watercolor-and-ink illustrations and accessible text, natural science illustrator and writer Marianne Wallace brings seashore life into vivid detail. Each coastal habitat is introduced with location maps and two-page spreads showcasing the remarkable variety of wildlife found there, from hermit crabs and sea stars to pelicans, sea otters, beach grasses, and colorful tide pool creatures. The book highlights what you might catch your eye along the shore or in shallow waters, demonstrating the incredible diversity within North American seashore ecosystems.

Marianne Wallace is a nature writer and illustrator who has also worked as an elementary school science teacher, a writer for the US Forest Service, a veterinarian's assistant, and a tour guide at a botanic garden. In her backyard at the base of mountains near Los Angeles, she has witnessed a bear asleep in the oak tree, deer eating fallen apples, a hawk using the birdbath, and squirrels fighting over who gets the most acorns. No wonder she writes about nature. She has a pet tarantula named Tilly.