Turtle Tide: The Ways of Sea Turtles

by Stephen R. Swinburne

Book Overview

A mother turtle swims to shore. She digs a hole in a dune where she lays one hundred eggs. Following her instinct, she covers the eggs with sand and slowly makes her way back to sea. What happens... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590788273
• ISBN13: 9781590788271
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Astra Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 10.8" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Why Turtles Are Endangered

I used this book to culminate a unit on Sea Turtles with second grade. After learning all about their nesting, life expectancy. and turtle predators, it wasn't until I read this book to students that they really understood how few turtles make it to the sea, let alone to adulthood. The students actually gasped when they saw the picture of the first predator and the number of eggs taken. This book had a great impact on student understanding. The pictures were vivid and well chosen to demonstrate all the different predators turtles have from egg to hatchling. A teacher knows they have found a great book when there is total silence until the last page.

Turtle Enough for me

I thought this book was really great because I always loved turtles and the sad part was she laid 100 eggs and only one survived. I think that this turtle book gives alot of information about turtle eggs and baby turtles. The pictures were really great. I would recommend this book to everybody because it is a really great story and fun to read.