Maybe you simply enjoy walking along the beach, searching the wrack line and exploring tidepools. Or you fish or hunt in salt marshes and estuaries and are interested in all that surrounds you. Perhaps you’re involved in a closer look as an educator or volunteer along the coast.

Here’s a beautifully illustrated little field guide that will help you identify and learn about the plants and animals of the intertidal zone. Written for the University of Maine’s Sea Grant program by Jill Fegley, John Moring, and Les Watling, it’s a fact-filled resource, arranged for easy identification, covering habitats, invertebrates, fishes, and marine plants. Andrea Sultzer’s pen-and-ink drawings, carefully done from live specimens, are finely detailed works of art!