turtles

Franklin wanders off while playing hide and seek with his friends.

After Turtle has saved him several times during the spring, summer, and fall, Newt finds a way to repay his friend before winter comes to the swamp.

Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.

Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways.

A tiny loggerhead turtle hatches on the beach, rushes to the water, and makes her journey far out to sea, where she grows bigger and stronger in preparation for returning to the beach to lay her own eggs.

Simple text and color photographs follow an eastern box turtle through her day.

Describes eight kinds of sea turtles, their physical characteristics, senses, how they feed, migrate, and nest, and what is being done to protect them.

In this folklore-like original tale, the starving creatures of the African savannah send the swiftest animal, then the strongest, and finally the most powerful to the mountain to learn the name of the great magic tree, but it is the lowly turtle who finally succeeds.

Relates how Honu, a daring Hawaiian sea turtle, becomes the first turtle to have a shell.

Tired of being a celebrity, the tortoise challenges the hare to race again, this time with the intention of losing.