One Tiny Turtle
 

One Tiny Turtle










“ I saw my first sea turtle in the Indian Ocean. It was a young green turtle, about the size of a dinner plate. It was hundreds of miles from the nearest land, right out in the middle of the sea, and yet it seemed to know exactly where it was going. I was fascinated and immediately felt I’d rather like to be a turtle roaming the oceans like that!

    When I began my research for this book I found that people know relatively little about sea turtles. Their long wanderings are still pretty mysterious and I wanted to reflect that in the book.

    One thing I’d really like my readers to feel is that scientific research into animals is something that’s never finished and done, and that they could be the ones to find out just exactly what turtles get up to out there in the big blue sea.” 


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Reviews


‘One great strength of this book is that while quality information is given, the limitations of our knowledge are often hinted at.’ — Books For Keeps


‘… varied and imaginative language … lively narrative …’ — Child Education

‘An author who gets the balance just right’ — Times Educational Supplement

‘If only all natural history books were as well pitched as this …’ — The Independent

 

Sea turtles are great travelers, roaming thousands of miles in remote oceans. After years of wandering they return to the beaches where they were hatched, to mate and lay their eggs, before swimming off into the open ocean once again. This is the story of one tiny turtle’s journey, from her nursery in the weedy Sargasso sea, through kelp beds and coral reefs, back to the tropical shore where she was born.

Jane Chapman’s illustrations portray the beauty and colour of the underwater world, and the endearing nature of ‘tiny turtle’

One Tiny Turtle

by Nicola Davies

illustrated by Jane Chapman

published by Walker Books

From “One Tiny Turtle”


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.