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Book Title and Author |
Brief Description |
The highlighted books on this page
can be purchased through Amazon.com. The books with OOP are Out of Print books. Some of these may still be obtainable. The descriptions that begin with an *'s are one I do not have in my collection yet. But hope to someday. |
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| OOP | The Tortoise Fair BY: John Patience |
Tales From Fern Hollow | |
| Tammy Turtle : A Tale
of Saving Sea Turtles (Suzanne Tate's Nature Series, No 11) BY: Suzanne Tate |
*Tammy Turtle is a book about a loggerhead turtle, which follows her life from hatching to reproduction. Amazingly, Tammy returns to the same beach where she hatched to lay her eggs. While at the beach, she finds her sister, whom she had not seen since their race to the sea. | ||
| Terrence the Turtle :
Head and Tale Books BY: Judith Jango-Cohen |
*10 page board edition - | ||
| The Beginning Of
Armadillo BY: Rudyard Kipling |
A tortoise and a hedgehog combine their natural assets and transform themselves into armadillos to escape the hungry attention of a young jaguar. | ||
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The Carabao-Turtle
Race and Other Classic Philipppine Animal Folk Tales. BY: Sylvia M. Ventura |
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| OOP | The Curse Of The
Turtle BY: Thomas Roy |
After a series of tragedies befall Jimmy's family, whose home is built on a scared Aborigine land, he and his friend, Tajurra, realize the survival of the Oonadera depends on reconciliation between black and white. | |
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The Dancing Turtle :
A Folktale from Brazil BY: Pleasant Despain |
*When a hunter captures Turtle and takes her home for turtle stew, her only hope for escape is the hunter's children . . . and her own wit. Featuring watercolors radiant with foliage and wildlife, David Boston guides the reader through the dense and fertile Amazon rain forest in this folktale told throughout Latin America. | |
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The Fisherman and the
Grateful Turtle BY: Essei Okawa |
*As Urashima Taro returns home after an unsuccessful day of fishing he discovers a group of children abusing an old turtle. He rescues the turtle and tosses it back into the sea. The daughter of the Sea King appears and invites Urashima Taro to her father's kingdom under the sea to thank him for his good deed. Part of "Heian's Japanese Fairy Tale Series". | |
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The Flying Tortoise :
An Igbo Tale BY: Tololwa M. Mollel |
*This humorous traditional tale from the Igbo people of Nigeria features the trickster tortoise, Mbeku, and shows how the tortoise got his rough, checkered shell as a result of Mbeku's greediness and cunning. | |
| The King And The
Tortoise BY: Tololwa M. Mollel |
The king challenges the animals in his kingdom to prove their wisdom by making him a robe of smoke, but only the tortoise is able to satisfy him. | ||
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The Name Of The Tree BY: Celia Barker Lottridge |
A Bantu Folktale: When the other turtles fail at the task, the slow but wise turtle finds a way to obtain the bountiful fruits of a magic tree. | |
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The Story of the
Fisherman and the Turtle Princess BY: Carolyn Graham |
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The Tortoise and The
Jackrabbit BY: Susan Lowell |
*The Tortoise and the Hare with a southwestern flair. Tortoise, living comfortably in her home on Slow Lane, awakens one morning feeling good and challenges cocky Jackrabbit to a race. Patiently bumping her way through the desert landscape, Tortoise heads for the finish line as Jackrabbit cheerfully skips--and sleeps. Roadrunner, Tarantula, Gila Monster and even a Javelina or three cheer them on. Irresistible fun for the young and old alike. | |
| The Tortoise And The
Tree BY: Janina Domanska |
Bantu Folktale: A retelling of a Bantu folktale that explains how the tortoise got his patchwork shell. | ||
| OOP | The Turtle And The
Island BY: Barbara Ker Wilson |
Papua New Guinea folktale: Retells the legend of how New Guinea was made by a great sea turtle, the mother of all sea turtles. | |
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The Turtle and the
Monkey BY: Paul Galdone |
*Turtle needs Monkey's help in getting the banana tree out of the river, but she's sorry later when greedy Monkey demands more than his share of the fruit. "This Philippine tale is told in a direct style which effectively allows Paul Galdone's illustrations to convey the emotional strife between the two characters." -- Language Arts | |
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The Turtle And The
Moon BY: Charles Turner |
Reminiscent of a favorite fable, this luminously illustrated tale describes how a wistful, lonely turtle comes to fall in love with the moon's reflection, mysterious and playful in the waters of the pond. | |
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The Turtle Who Lost
His Shell BY: Paul Levy |
When Little Bunny needs a place to hide his carrots, Little Turtle is happy to share his shell. But he forgets to get it back, and it is then that Little Turtle learns why his shell is so special. | |
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The Year Of The
Turtle, A Natural History Story BY: David M. Carroll |
Mr. Carroll leads us through the yearly life cycle of freshwater turtles and introduces us to the flora and fauna that inhabit the same areas. | |
| Toby The Tortise BY: Gerald Durrell |
Roger and his dog go for an adventure and find a tortoise who had fallen into the water. He rescues Toby the Tortoise and brings him home to live. But Toby is lonely so the search begins to find someone to share Toby the Tortoise's new home. | ||
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Tortoise Brings the
Mail BY: Dee Lillegard |
*na | |
| Traveling To Tondo BY: Verna Aardema |
A tale of the Nkundo of Zaire: On his way to his wedding, with his friends as attendants, a civet cat meets with extraordinary and unexpected delays. | ||
| Tunkashila : From the
Birth of Turtle Island to the Blood of Wounded Knee BY: Gerald Hausman |
The mythological saga of Native America told in one sweeping narrative. Hausman retells dozens of native stories with a whole pageant of colorful characters and supernatural beings. The epic include | ||
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Turtle Bay BY: Saviour Pirotta |
Taro is fascinated by the strange actions of old Jiro-San, who sweeps the sand on the beach while waiting for the arrival of Japanese sea turtles to lay their eggs. | |
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Turtle Day BY: Douglas Florian |
Turtle's adventures include sunning on a log, going for a swim, and being scared by a snake. | |
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Turtle Going Nowhere
in the Plenty of Time: Native American Tales from the South- and Midwest/and Maria Posa
(Healing Wings) BY: Davis Many Voices |
*Presents American Indian tales from the Southwest and Midwest, including those which explain how bluebonnets came into the world and why raccoons wash their food. | |
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Turtle In July BY: Marilyn Singer |
An illustrated collection about the activities of particular animals in each month of the year. | |
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Turtle Island
Alphabet : A Lexicon of Native American Symbols and Culture BY: Gerald Hausman |
*Gerald Hausman has spent more than 20 years studying, collecting, and narrating Native American stories. In a collection of symbols and images central to Native American culture, he offers a lyrical, poetic work which reaffirms the view that Native Americans once held of the land. Illustrations | |
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Turtle Knows Your
Name By: Ashley Bryan |
*na | |
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Turtle Moon BY: Alice Hoffman |
Verity, home to more divorced women from New York than any other town in Florida, is where Lucy moves with her son Keith to get away from her ex. But when Keith runs off with a baby, after the child's mother is murdered, the stage is set for mayhem, thrills, and unexpected romance. | |
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Turtle Spring BY: Deborah Turney Zagwyn |
The changing seasons bring surprises to Clee, including a new baby brother early in the year and a turtle whose life seems to crawl away in the winter. | |
| What Newt Could Do
for Turtle BY: Johnathan London |
Spring has come to the swamp. Newt wakes up from his winter's nap, deep in the mud. Luckily, his dearest friend, Turtle, wakes up and pulls him out. Now, Newt has spent the summer trying to think of a way to repay his friend. As winter closes in, Turtle is in real trouble and Newt finds a clever, daring way to save him. Full color. | ||
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Yertle The Turtle
& Other Stories BY: Dr Seuss |
A story about a king turtle who wanted to get as high as he could. | |
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Yummers! BY: James Marshall |
A funny tale of temptation and good intentions. |
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