Some of my favorite things to see at an aquarium are jellyfish. Watching their rhythmic moves is almost meditative for me. And I’m always fascinated by the different sizes, shapes, tendrils, and colors. All on animals with no brains!

Karen Jameson shines light on these fascinating sea creatures in her picture book, The Secrets of the Jellies: Amazing Jellyfish and Their Surprising Talents. Rhyming text is fun to read out loud and each page focuses on different aspects of jellies. For instance, the book starts with these lines:

Jellies pulse, jellies ride, gracing water as they glide.

They teem through all the ocean zones.

But did you know they have no bones?

A fun feature of each page is that the last word appears in giant letters, which lets readers focus on one specific characteristic of jellies. And the illustrations by Marie Hermansson bring the underwater world to life by depicting not only the jellies but also fish and kelp and sharks and other things that live in the sea.

For young inquiring minds, the back of the book contains lots of facts about jellies doled out in bite-sized pieces. There’s also a guide to several different kinds of jellyfish and how they live. The Secrets of the Jellies is both fun and educational, and I can imagine children memorizing the lines as parents read the text over and over again.

The publisher provided a copy of this title in exchange for my honest review.