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Reviewed by Makeda Cummings for Readers' Favorite
Tracy Harmon’s Strange Seas introduces a whimsical world where marine biology meets creative art through thirty distinct, hand-drawn scenes. The book plays with real ocean behaviors and turns them into fun, imaginative concepts, like a boxfish running an underwater package delivery route or an octopus acting as a deep-sea boxer. You get a close look at animals using clever defense tricks to get through the day, like a parrotfish snoozing away inside a transparent sleeping cocoon or a pufferfish swelling up to stay safe in deep waters. Along the journey, the profiles detail how these diverse species hunt, build cooperative partnerships, and manage complex physiological traits like an ocean sunfish reaching the weight of a rhinoceros. It is a gentle reminder of the endless surprises waiting to be discovered in the quiet corners of our oceans.
Tracy Harmon’s Strange Seas is an educational coloring book that delivers a surprisingly immersive underwater voyage. There is a beautifully soft, inviting rhythm to exploring this book that draws you right in. The line art splits the book into pure imagination and textbook science, giving you delightful images like a father seahorse looking down lovingly at a stream of tiny babies escaping from his pouch. The learning aspect clicks perfectly when you check the back pages and read about their quick gestation periods and huge litters. It makes you look at every other drawing differently, like the frogfish holding a tiny fishing rod to mirror its actual predatory snout modification. You even learn that when the artist draws an octopus actively punching a neighbor, it represents true observations of reef behavior where they box other fish to protect their catches. The whole book is an engaging, creative celebration of sea life that leaves you feeling deeply refreshed and a lot more knowledgeable about the ocean.
