The Turtle and the Moon

by Charles Turner

Book Overview

A lonely turtle makes friends with the moon. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525446591
• ISBN13: 9780525446590
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Beautiful pictures and lovely story

I checked this book out of the library to read with our 3 year old. She liked the story well enough, but I fell in love with it. The pictures were what really got my attention and the sweet story sealed the deal. I ended up buying a copy to keep. It's been a year now and it's still one of my very favorite stories and one I plan to keep forever.

Utterly enchanting

Wonderful artwork, a simple flowing narrative, and a charming little turtle that you cannot help but like and sympathize with, makes this book one of the finest childrens' books I have come across in quite some time. The theme of loneliness & the solace of companionship should warm the heart of anyone who reads this.

Finding Comfort When Alone

This is a beautiful tale about finding comfort and a sense of well-being when one feels alone. Parents tell me that this book is a favorite of all the children I have given it to as gifts. The narrative style and the simple water-colors lend a sense of poignancy to this story of a turtle and his new-found, reliable friend. This is sensitive story-telling at its best in children's literature.

Such a wonderful, wonderful picture book!

This book is so lovely! Incredibly simple, and appropriate for any age, but spell-binding and beautiful. The illustrations are spectacular, and the story is gentle and quietly sweet.I only wish it were more readily available, so I could give it as gifts to every new baby I know...

a gorgeous tapestry of words and color, peace and ecstasty

One of the most beautiful children's books around, "The Turtle and the Moon" is such a quiet, gentle offering among recent children's literature, that it seems to have been largely unnoticed. A shame, because the splendidly lyric paintings and mellifluous prose blend together in a such dreamlike, languidly lifelike story that both parents and children, the storytellers and the story-rapt, find themselves utterly intrigued. Discovery, friendship, creativity, providence, nature, imagination, loyalty and joy shine gloriously through on every page, while the simplicity of the story of a solitary turtle finding new worlds in his every day is one that any child can understand and love. So read this story just before bed, and hope that we all have half so beautiful dreams...