Sea Bones

This animated adaptation of author and illustrator Bob Barner’s 2018 picture book features non-scale drawings of various ocean creatures in bright colors, with a loud and cheerful (albeit somewhat intrusive) theme song sung by narrator Crystal Taliefero of the Billy Joel Band. After some whimsical rhyming about organisms that "have bones like you and me," Sea Bones gets down to business with facts and diagrams concerning jellyfish, lobster, coral reef, seals, and blue whales. The importance placed on exo and endo skeletons seems to be the apparent point, but overall this short is not as informative or interesting as the much better adaptations of Barner’s books Dem Bones (VL-5/04) and Dinosaur Bones (VL-5/07). Featuring a read-along option, this is an optional purchase. Aud: K, E, P. (J. Williams-Wood)