Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!

by April Pulley Sayre (Author) Annie Patterson (Illustrator)

Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Sea turtles face many dangers as they grow, eat, travel, and breed in oceans and on beaches around the world. In this dramatization of one female turtle's challenges, acclaimed nature writer April Pulley Sayre highlights the role that humans have in helping endangered species.
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K-Gr 2 Dangers threaten the survival of sea turtles at every stage of their lives. In this newly illustrated version of a 2000 book of the same title, beautiful pictures in watercolor, gouache, and pastels illustrate many of these risky situations, and the narrative describes how people are working to minimize these threats. The title is repeated on many of the double-page descriptions: a new hatchling is attracted to the porch light "Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! Small hands switch off the light," so that the baby turtle changes direction away from the house and toward the moonlight on the water. Other dangers are natural the night herons and raccoons alert to the scrambling hatchlings, hungry fish awaiting the tiny babies tumbling in the currents. People's life-saving actions are described or shown, e.g., reaching out of a boat into the water to retrieve a plastic bag that could choke a feeding turtle. The illustrations are soft-toned but dramatically interpret such dangers as the looming cat on the beach, menacing sharks, and confining fishing nets. A two-page description of how people throughout the world are helping the seven endangered species of sea turtles survive and the thumbnail sketches of these species provide background. A good read-aloud or read-along choice for environmental awareness. "Frances E. Millhouser, formerly at Chantilly Regional Library, Fairfax County, VA"

Copyright 2010 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

April Pulley Sayre
April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre are a husband-and-wife team who lead ecotours and travel extensively to study, photograph, and videotape animals in the rain forests of Panama, Madagascar, and Ecuador. They also speak at schools, botanical gardens, zoos, and nature festivals. Together they wrote a natural history book for adults. Jeff Sayre is an ecologist specializing in native plants and birds. April Pulley Sayre is an award-winning author of more than forty books for children. The Sayres love to brainstorm and laugh together - which is how the idea for ONE IS A SNAIL came about.

Randy Cecil graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and is the illustrator of numerous books for children. He says of ONE IS A SNAIL, "It was great fun to figure out how these strange creatures would react in all these different combinations. Crabs seem to have the best time together!"
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781580891493
Lexile Measure
530
Guided Reading Level
N
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Publication date
February 01, 2010
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV002170 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Marine Life
JUV002240 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Turtles
Library of Congress categories
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