Zobi and the Zoox
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Zobi and the Zoox is about a symbiotic relationship. It tells the story of the microscopic friends living in a tiny coral polyp. 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). The coral becomes gravely ill and bacteria around them begin to starve. Can Zobi and the Zoox work together to save the day? Zobi and the Zoox is the second in the Small Friends series - stories of symbioses between microbes and larger forms of life. Each book is also a kind of symbiosis: a collaboration between writers, scientists, artists, designers and educators. Small Friends was initiated by Scale Free Network, an art-science collective.
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Product details
- Paperback | 44 pages
- 200 x 200 x 3mm | 134g
- 15 Dec 2014
- Scale Free Network
- VIC, Australia
- illustrations with rich scientific explanations
- 0992587212
- 9780992587215
Review quote
"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." Reading Time (The Children's Book Council of Australia)
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About Ailsa Wild
Ailsa Wild is the author of the successful Squishy Taylor series which was launched in 2016 and has already sold more than 60,000 copies. Squishy Taylor is for 6-10 year olds, about the adventures of daredevil, problem-solving Squishy and her bonus sisters (published by Hardie Grant Egmont).They will be published in the USA, UK and Spain in 2017. Ailsa is a writer, performer and community artist who loves collaboration. She makes stories with scientists, musicians, kids and circus performers. Her first publications, with Small Friends Books, are science adventures starring microbes, molecules and mucus, where the bacteria are the heroes. She is the co-director of Teacup Tumble Physical Theatre who have performed their science-inspired shows 'It's not Circus It's Science' and 'Dimensional' across regional Victoria, Tasmania and NSW. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, The Monthly and on stages across Australia. She has a Masters of Creative Media (creative writing) from RMIT and years of collaboration under her belt.
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