One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder | Nicola Davies

One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder | Nicola Davies | Life cycle of the loggerhead, written for children and those who don't grow up...

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	One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder Nicola Davies Candlewick, 2005 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic doublepage pictures convey the astonishing facts about the loggerhead sea turtle. . . . A powerful nature story for a young audience." ?BOOKLIST

Far, far out at sea lives one of the world's most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Then, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs ? the very same beach where she herself was born. Nicola Davies's lyrical text offers fascinating information about the journey of the tiny, endangered loggerhead, while charming paintings by Jane Chapman vividly illustrate one turtle's odyssey.

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My Favorite Book!

I like this story because it tells me a lot about loggerhead turtles. My favorite part about the story is the interesting fact that turtles cry. I never knew that! Turtles lay one to ten eggs, but at least five live. I learned that. They lay their eggs at night. I like this book because it is a wonderful story about turtles and I think everyone should read it.

Life cycle of the loggerhead, written for children and those who don't grow up...

"Far, far out to sea, land is only a memory, and empty sky touches the water. Just beneath the surface is a tangle of weed and driftwood where tiny creatures cling. This is the nursery of a sea turtle" (p. 1-2).

Nicola Davies story of the life of the loggerhead sea turtle, combined with the outstanding illustrations of Jane Chapman, make this an entertaining book on sea turtles for children ages 3-7. The larger text focuses on the story of survival of one loggerhead, while smaller text provides more detailed information. The hardcover book is quite large, making it a great book for holding open and reading to a group of children.

This is one of the nicer books for very young people on sea turtles.

Minor issues:

"Sea turtles are great wanderers, traveling thousands of miles each year, often far from land." Many subadult and adult sea turtles go through periods where they just "hunker down" in their foraging and resting areas. The grand travels tend to be restricted to the times they visit their nesting areas (every 2-4 years) and when they are still growing in those first few "lost years" of pelagic foraging. Leatherbacks, of course, are a real exception, since they always seem to be traveling.

"Not much bigger than a bottle top..." (p. 8). Actually, a hatched loggerhead is never the size of a bottle top, and a growing loggerhead is much bigger. I think a better size reference could have been used here.

"Coming ashore is very risky for sea turtles - they can easily overheat and die. So they only nest at night or in cool weather" (p. 21). I agree coming ashore is risky. But the most important reason is probably avoidance of predation.

Hey, you can't cram everything into a book for young children! I'll use this one in the classroom.

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A VERY WELL DONE AND INFORMATIVE BOOK - KIDS LOVE THIS ONE

There is so much information packed into this work that it is difficult to imagine how the author and illustrator pulled it off. This is the story of the life cycle of the loggerhead turtle. The illustrations are beautiful and actually quite accurate. The text is simple and very, very well done. It follows the illustrations perfectly and is just overflowing with good information. This book, while great for kids to read on their own (this is one of the more used books in our school library), it is also great to read to the class as a whole as it never fails to bring on good questions and good discussions (better know your turtles when faces with a bunch of third graders).

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My students love this book

My Reading Olympics team really enjoyed this book.. The illustrations are great and it's a nice story.

Remarkably Beautiful Book

We received One Tiny Turtle as part of an "undersea pack" assortment of books from Scholastic, and I wasn't prepared for what an excellent book it turns out to be. Packed with information about the lifecycle of loggerhead turtles, One Tiny Turtle is also graced with lush, dreamy paintings of the loggerhead's undersea world. The text is lyrical and challenging to my young reader ("pinprick nostrils" is one phrase that stood out), but clear and easy for her to follow. It's somewhere between a standard "kids read and find out" book and the kind of thoughtful nature writing you expect from the likes of Rachel Carson -- on a level that works well for kindergarten and young-elementary students.

Highly recommended!

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