Turtle Tracks - Hardcover

Plowden, Sally Harman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967901669 ISBN 13: 9780967901664

Publisher: Palmetto Conservation Foundation, 2002

Synopsis

A girl vacationing with her family at the beach meets a volunteer who is helping newly-hatched loggerhead turtles to reach the water safely.

About this title

From Booklist:

PreS-2. While visiting the seashore one summer, a girl joins a group of people who have come to watch newly hatched sea turtles make their way across the beach to the ocean. A college student working on loggerhead turtle protection helps the hatchlings along, answers the observers' questions, and explains what is known of loggerhead behavior. The graceful text creates a good balance of information about turtles with the evocation of a child's experience at the beach, while the handsomely crafted artwork--ink drawings with watercolor washes--sensitively illustrates the story. Back matter includes a page of additional facts about loggerheads, tips for protecting the turtles, a source bibliography, and a list of state wildlife agencies in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Carolyn Phelan
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Review:

" A wonderfully written and illustrated book about being aware of the wildlife around us." -- Dan Evans, Sea Turtle Survival League, February 15, 2002

" I feel in love with this book as soon as I saw (it)!" -- Sally Murphy, a biologist and sea turtle expert at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, February 14, 2002

About this edition

• Publisher: Palmetto Conservation Foundation
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0967901669
• ISBN 13: 9780967901664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 36
• Illustrator: Plouden Tee, Plowden Tee