This book is a narrative told from the point of view of a young girl who
is showing her visiting cousin a Georgia coastal salt marsh. The
children visit the marsh every day for four days, slowly building their
knowledge of the ecosystem. As they make their way through the tall
marsh grass, the two children slip and slide on marsh mud, discover
clusters of ribbed mussels at the base of the grass, and watch as
fiddler crabs skitter from burrow to burrow around the edge of a creek.
Representative of intertidal marshes throughout the world, the Georgia
coastal salt marsh described in this book is typically shared by both
land and marine mammals, presenting a unique ecosystem at the water's
edge.