It’s been a nerve-wracking week here in Baltimore, but I wanted to quickly share a few good microbial related reads for the Fabulous Friday Feature(s).
For kids (though adults might love it too!!)
A freebie for the first week of May is an e-book copy of The Squid, the Vibrio and the Moon, the FABULOUS kids book out of Australia on the beneficial interaction between the bobtail squid and it’s glowing Vibrio bacteria. This book is the first in a series on mutualistic microbes that is produced by the Scale Free Network. The lead scientist is Gregory Crocetti and partnering with artists Briony Barr & Jacqueline Smith. I love that it’s written in an engaging style and the science is spot-on! My daughter Jac was 5 when we got this and she was mesmerized through the whole book. The illustrations are phenomenal. They also have teaching resources if you want to use the book in the classroom! The Squid, The Vibrio, and the Moon is an amazing first book from this magnificant mutualistic team of humans!
Scale Free Network’s second book on microscopic organisms – Zobi and the Zoox – features the coral reef and its many microscopic partners – a photosynthetic zooxanthellae, a nitrogen fixing bacterium, and a wise old cyanobacterium. The ocean waters are warming causing some of the coral’s zooxanthellae to produce toxins that poison the coral. How can a pale little zooxanthellae once ridiculed by the bigger zooxs partner with a nitrogen-fixing bacterium and her family save the coral? Open up Zobi and the Zoox to find out!
Hope you enjoy these fine reads!
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