The Book of Turtles: A Fact-Filled Picture Book About Beloved Reptile Species for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Meet the Species, 1) - Hardcover

Montgomery, Sy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0358458072 ISBN 13: 9780358458074

Publisher: Clarion Books, 2023

Synopsis

**A SIBERT HONOR BOOK! **

** A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ** A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE OF THE YEAR **

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery comes an ode to one of the most diverse, fascinating, and beloved species on the planet: turtles. With dazzling illustrations and emotionally engaging, fact-filled text, this picture book will speak to the wisdom these long-lived animals can lend.

Everyone loves turtles. And no wonder: long-lived, unhurried, and ancient, these shelled reptiles are fascinating.

Turtles are also endlessly surprising. There are turtles with soft shells, turtles with googly eyes, turtles with necks longer than their bodies, and turtles whose shells glow in the dark!

And each turtle, of each of the more than 300 kinds, is an individual. You’ll meet some of them here: Lonesome George, the last of his kind on Earth. And Myrtle, the 90-year-old green sea turtle who has more than 7,000 followers on Facebook.        

What questions might you ask a turtle? You’ll find many of the answers in this gorgeous compendium—and perhaps be inspired to help at a time when these reptiles, who evolved at the same time as the dinosaurs, face the deadliest dangers of their more than 380-million-year history.

Read more books by Sy Montgomery:

• Becoming a Good Creature
• The Magnificent Migration
• Condor Comeback
• The Hyena Scientist
• The Octopus Scientists
• The Great White Shark Scientist

 

About this title

About the Authors

Researching her films, articles, and more than forty books, Sy Montgomery has trekked into the cloud forest of Papua, New Guinea, cage-dived off Mexico with great white sharks, and scuba-dived off two continents to commune with wild octopuses. A National Book Award finalist, her work has been honored with a Sibert Medal, a Cook Prize Gold Medal, two Science Book and Film prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science, four honorary degrees, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock, New Hampshire. Visit her online at symontgomery.com.

Matt Patterson received a degree from the Art Institute of Boston in illustration. His vivid, lifelike art has won national and international acclaim, including the Golden Turtle Award and―twice―the Roger Tory Peterson Wild America Art Award. His work has hung in prestigious galleries, museums, and shows, including the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s Birds in Art exhibition, and he is a fellow at the Explorers Club. Matt’s debut picture book, The Book of Turtles, was a Sibert Honor Book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0358458072
• ISBN 13: 9780358458074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Patterson Matt
• Number of pages: 40