
Our World Ocean: Understanding the Most Important Ecosystem on Earth
Essentials Edition
Written and Created by
Sean Chamberlin
With Illustrations by
Nicole Shaw
Cover and Page Art by
Martha Rich
Edited by
Denise Logsdon
Proofreading by
Christina Palaia
Page Design by
Amy Weiher

This book was inspired by Jacques Cousteau.
Covers and page art by Martha Rich © 2023 Blue Planet Publishing. All rights reserved.
Illustrations by Shaw published under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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