Turtle Tide: The Ways of Sea Turtles

Through the eyes of former National Park Service Ranger, Stephen R. Swinburne, we watch as a mother sea turtle sniffs the air, recognizes the spot along the Atlantic beaches that is her birthplace, and crawls up onto the shore to lay her eggs. Vividly, we experience what it's like to be that mother digging and laying one hundred eggs in the sandy hole she's made all the while battling time and the tears clouding her eyes. Finally covering the nest with sand, she heads back out to sea. What happens to those hundred eggs? How many of them will survive to make it back to the ocean world? With big, inviting illustrations, we follow the journey of the eggs to hatching and heading down to the surf. How many do you think will survive? Great story. Wonderful peek into the natural world around us to connect our children to the wonder and help them understand the power they hold as stewards of our environment. 32 pages Ages 6-10 (Coming out in paperback August 2010)