  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 11/01/2018 In this follow-up to Tsurumi’s well-received Accident!? (2017), many creatures go about their business under the sea: “Clownfish hides in the stinging anemone. Manta Ray gets cleaned . . . [and] Scallop does loop-de-loops,” while Crab . . . well, “Crab bakes cakes.” Quite how one bakes underwater when everybody else is doing biologically appropriate, if anthropomorphized, activities is entirely beside the point, especially when suddenly “there’s a BIG SPLASH!” and lots of garbage is dumped into their world from a boat that had been circling ominously on the back cover. This trauma causes everyone to freeze up, except for Crab, who carries on baking, bringing everybody together around good food and inspiring them to collaboratively return the mess to land, along with a message to humans: “Come get your junk!” While entertaining, as evidenced by the playful title which recalls appetizers at a seafood restaurant, it is with serious intent and empathy that these comical comics (graphite on vellum with digital coloring) successfully communicate a theme of community and environmentalism. - Copyright 2018 Booklist. Loading...
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