02081cam a2200409 i 4500 506332739 TxAuBib 20210707120000.0 190909s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780763689346 0763689343 (OCoLC)1117549406 TxAuBib rda Buhrman-Deever, Susannah, 1978- If You Take Away the Otter : (AR) / Susannah Buhruman-Deever ; illustrated by Matthew Trueman. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2020] ℗2020. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. On the Pacific Coast of North America, sea otters play, dive, and hunt for sea urchins, crabs, abalone, and fish in the lush kelp forests beneath the waves. But there was a time when people hunted the otters almost to extinction. Without sea otters to eat them, an army of hungry sea urchins grew and destroyed entire kelp forests. Fish and other animals that depended on the kelp were lost, too. But when people protected the sea otters with new laws, their numbers began to recover, and so did the kelp forests. The author offers an account of a trophic cascade, which happens when the removal of a single element affects an entire habitat.--Amazon.com. 20210707. Orbis Pictus Award, Honor, 2021. Accelerated Reader 5.0. Sea otter Conservation Northwest, Pacific Juvenile literature. Sea otter. Marine habitat conservation Northwest, Pacific Juvenile literature. Habitat (Ecology.) Picture books for children. Trueman, Matthew, illustrator.