The text a nd heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 4.0 by Chris Reilley. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary. The fish featured on the cover of Learning the bash Shell is a silver bass, one of the 400-500 species of sea bass. The silver bass, also known as the white perch, is found in freshwater bays and river mouths along the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to South Carolina, and is most abundant in the Chesapeake region.
Silver bass live in large schools and feed on small fishes and crustaceans.
Although many bass never stray far from one place their whole lives, silver bass swim upstream to spawn, often becoming landlocked in the process. Like most bass, the silver bass is attracted to bright, shiny objects, and they can be drawn quite close to swimmers and divers in this way.