One Tiny Turtle

The story is about a baby sea turtle that goes through all the stages of it's life. Hatching from an egg to returning back to where it was born and laying it's own eggs. I thought this was a good story to teach the children about how turtles live. This book can be used in classrooms for science

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class to teach children about the life cycles of animals.

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One Tiny Turtle is an excellent introduction to non-fiction writing for young children. The narrative story style of the writing and the realistic, yet artistic, illustrations, make the text very accessible to young readers. One concern is that the information may not be taken for fact due to the

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book's similarities to fiction books.

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If I am ever teaching a lesson on turtles in my science class or ecology, I would read this book before i start the lesson.

I really like this book because it combines scientific information about turtles with a story, because it has realistic illustrations, and because it is about one of my favorite types of sea turtles, the loggerback! On each page, there is larger text telling the story of a baby turtle growing up.

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But, also on each page is smaller text that tells a piece of scientific information about turtles. On page 11, when it tells the reader that the turtle is swimming around, there is smaller text that tells readers how turtles are able to stay underwater for so long, and how they are different from fish. Illustrator Jane Chapman did a great job of creating beautiful illustrations that help to support the informational text on each page, as well as to make for entertaining pictures. For example, on page 9 it says, “turtles have shells that cover their backs and shells that cover their stomachs.” In the illustration, you can clearly see shells on both the top and the bottom of the turtle. The main idea of this book is to relate informational text with story text in order to inform the reader about loggerhead turtles.

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One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies

Summary:
There is a sea turtle by the name Loggerhead that live out in the ocean. This book describes the basic routine of the turtle's life such as swimming around the water and mating with the opposite sex to show how they produce their eggs on the shore digging a

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deep hole in them. Then the turtle goes back into the ocean life and the eggs will hatch after the summer's over in six weeks and each of them adventure to start their own individual lives.

Personal Reaction:
The life of a turtle excites the teacher and students to be more interested with the study of science and animal life. Also the pictures are really nice and colorful for the children to enjoy them better.

Classroom Extension:
1.The children can create their own turtles out of cardboard boxes or play dough.
2.A person that works at a pet store can bring a turtle and share it to the students.

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Review: A book about the life of a sea turtle and how in the great big sea this little turtle has a great adventure. About life and what an animal does to survive,

Ages: 5 - 8 Years

Source: Pierce ECE library

This wonderful book showcases the life cycle of a sea turtle. The artistry of this book appears to have been done with acrylic paint. I will use this book in a book cluster during a unit study on marine animals.

I really enjoyed reading this book. First, I liked this book because of its pictures. Each page was done in water color and I think this technique truly grasped the vision of an ocean. The colors blended well together and the pictures were very engaging and wonderful to look at. Another reason why

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I liked this book was because of its content. The author did a great job attracting her young audience. The word choice was appropriate for young readers and she really made the hatching and laying of a young turtle interesting and exciting. Lastly, I liked this book because of the plot. There was a turtle who swam back to the beach where she was once laid and she laid her eggs in the same place. The reader can go on her adventure with her as she travels throughout the ocean. The main message of this story is to expose readers to the life cycle and everyday life of a turtle in the ocean.

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Not only are the illustrations amazing, but the descriptive words are also captivating. Davies writes, "She's a baby, so her shell is soft as old leather." While academic language is simple in this book, students can learn about the life cycles of loggerhead turtles. This book could be used to

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support the crosscutting concept of structure and function; students could study the structure of the turtle's bony shell and function it has for the turtle.

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What a beautiful book! I've always been fascinated by sea turtles and find this book to be a terrific celebration of them. It tells of the life cycle of a single loggerhead turtle in straight and wavy narrative lines (probably the same motions of a swimming turtle) and gorgeous illustrations. An

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extra added treat is an index in the back of the book which points readers to specific information on previous pages. This book would be excellent for any preschooler who loves hearing and learning about sea creatures or for a school age child who would like to try reading about this fascinating creature.

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Very tame. Pretty, but just pretty and obvious about being sanitized for kids.