Salmon (5)

Migrating Animals

by B.J. Best

Salmon live for years in the ocean, but only reproduce once. They swim up the river where they were born, spawn, and then typically die. This approach to reproduction offers unique advantages and challenges. Kids will learn about the amazing ability of these fish to return to their breeding grounds, and how the life cycle of the salmon ensures continuity of the species.

24 pages, Library Binding

Published December 30, 2016

About the author

B.J. Best is the author of three books of poetry: But Our Princess Is in Another Castle (Rose Metal Press, 2013), State Sonnets (sunnyoutside, 2009), and Birds of Wisconsin (New Rivers Press, 2010), winner of the Many Voices Project competition and an Outstanding Achievement in Poetry award from the Wisconsin Library Association. He has also published three chapbooks with Centennial Press, most recently Drag: Twenty Short Poems about Smoking, as well as numerous poems in literary magazines, including Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Pleiades, Quarterly West, and Sentence. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is an Assistant Professor of English at Carroll University. He has twice been a finalist to serve as Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, and serves on the editorial board for Verse Wisconsin.