Alice and her parents spend the week of Alice's tenth birthday as they always do on Sanibel Island, Florida, but Alice gets upset when she discovers some of the people who are always there are missing and new ones have arrived, and Alice wants things to be like they have always been.
Provides information about mollusks and their shells and how to identify them, along with detailed descriptions and photographs of fifty common North American shells.
A first guide to the wonders and workings of life inside shells. Pictures and text describe both the external and internal anatomy of animals with shells.
Contains full-color photographs of Jacques Senders' collection of rare shells from around the world; and includes expert commentary on their formation, history, connection to other disciplines, and other related topics.
A photographic directory of over 1,200 shells, grouped by class, and subdivided into super family, family, genus, and species; with essays that discuss the influence of shells, habitat, conservation, collecting, and other topics.