Then, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs - the very same beach where she herself was born. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food.

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. 'Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic doublepage pictures convey the astonishing facts about the loggerhead sea turtle. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Broadly sketched in good language and pictures for read-aloud sharing, Davies's title will be enjoyed as a glimpse into the ways of the remarkable giant sea turtles.Ĭopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Gail Gibbons's Sea Turtles (Holiday, 1995) and Brenda Guiberson's Into the Sea (Holt, l995) offer young readers more information on this interesting animal. A very brief introduction identifies this turtle as a loggerhead. A fine bed of blue crabs on which the turtle feasts is the only view of other animals sharing the ocean habitat until a concluding beach scenario where gulls and crabs threaten the newly hatched turtles who are starting the cycle anew.

The double-spread paintings, occasionally alternating with smaller pictures set on aqua pages, focus on the turtle, with a few water plants suggesting underwater detail.

On many pages curving lines of smaller type add bits of explanation, augmenting the story line. This is the nursery of a sea turtle.' Several pages follow the creature's early period and departure for the larger sea, and then the years of growth and travel are skimmed until her eventual return to the beach of her birth to lay her own eggs. The author exhibits a flair for alliteration and imagery in her descriptive narrative about this sea animal: 'Just beneath the surface is a tangle of weed and driftwood where tiny creatures cling. K-Gr 2-This nicely developed picture-book introduction to the loggerhead turtle sketches the life experiences of a typical female through text and broad acrylic views.

One tiny turtle by nicola davies