After being abandoned in a pond, Bartleby, a pet turtle, meets many other creatures, learns to survive in the wild, and decides to go in search of his birthplace.
Presents four rhyming stories: Jane Yolen's "How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?", Denise Fleming's "In the Small, Small Pond," Lloyd Moss's "Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin," and Sheila Hamanka's "All the Colors of the Earth.".