Readers meet Poppy and Paddy, spirited pilot whale twins with a thirst for knowledge and mischief. They’ll hear the chronicles of Barnacle Buzz whose accounts of sea life never fail to draw a crowd of listeners on the ocean floor. And they’ll follow Ronnie and Rosalina, red-breasted mergansers whose love story rivals any bestselling novel.

Through these characters’ eyes, readers learn how the actions of humans directly affect animal families, altering their lives both in positive and negative ways and how they struggle to survive the forces of nature.