ZOBI AND THE ZOOX: A STORY OF CORAL BLEACHING

Book ID/图书代码： 08503019C00039

English Summary/英文概要： With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady zoox (zooxanthellae). As the coral bleaches, everyone begins to starve...

Can Zobi and the zoox work together to save the day?

This beautifully illustrated science-adventure story, set on the Great Barrier Reef, was originally published in 2015, but has been extensively re-written and revised to delight and captivate primary-school aged readers.

Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching is the first in the new Small Friends Books series – Stories of Partnership and Cooperation in Nature.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當全球暖化造成珊瑚的威脅時，我們的英雄Zobi(一種根瘤菌)和Zoox(蟲黃藻，是海藻的一種，一種金黃色細胞間共生菌)，要怎麼拯救珊瑚的家園呢？

這個與眾不同的科學繪本故事系列，由概念藝術家、科學家和童書作家聯手創作，以繽紛的色彩呈現顯微鏡底下的微觀世界，以微生物為主角，講述它們與其他動物間間的共生關係。以故事的形式，讓孩子輕鬆了解奇妙的微生物科學。 (Zoe)

Awards/获奖情况：★Puggle兒童選書獎得主（winner of a Puggle (children’s choice award)）

★2015年環境兒童文學獎入圍 (shortlisted for the 2015 Environmental Award for Children’s Literature)

★澳洲語言治療年度圖書獎 (Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year award)

★2015年DuBary傑出兒童科學圖書獎 (2015 DuBary Outstanding Children’s Science Book Award)

★新南威爾士州皇家動物學會-惠特雷圖書獎（Whitley Medal），該獎項為澳洲表揚自然科學貢獻的圖書獎，首次頒發給童書!

Also the winner of a Puggle (children’s choice award), and shortlisted for the 2015 Environmental Award for Children’s Literature, the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year award and a 2015 DuBary Outstanding Children’s Science Book Award.

"Aviva Reed’s wonderfully liquid illustrations infuse the microbial world with life, colour and a sense of movement; they clearly communicate the complexities of an interconnected and interdependent ecosystem." (Tessa Wooldridge (review of 2015 edition), The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Reading Time)

"Zobi and the Zoox is exquisite." (Robyn Williams, ABC Science Show)

"I felt like I was a piece of coral and I was just watching all these little things going on in the mucus. I really felt like I was a part of it." (Bodhi Harper, 11 yrs old)

About the Author/作者介绍： Ailsa Wild creates stories for theatre and paper pages. She loves collaborating with acrobats, scientists and children and her favourite question is ... But why? Aviva Reed is a multi-disciplinary visual ecologist who creates immersive experiences to explore complex science. Briony Barr is a conceptual artist, designer and interdisciplinary thinker, who is fascinated by the relationships between large and small. Gregory Crocetti combines his microbial ecology experience with science education skills in an attempt to teach the world that microbes are marvellous. Linda Blackall is an environmental microbiologist at The University of Melbourne. Her main research interests are using microbes to promote environmental sustainability, understanding symbiotic associations, and generally studying microbes wherever they exist - which is everywhere!

Format:全彩四色

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

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