turtles

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turtles

What's the difference between a turtle and a tortoise?

2011
Colorful illustrations and simple text describe the differences between a turtle and a tortoise.

Jabut?, the tortoise

a trickster tale from the Amazon
2001
All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabut?, the tortoise, except Vulture, who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabut? into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.

Esio Trot

1999
Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.

Hurry and the monarch

2009
Hurry the tortoise befriends a monarch butterfly when she stops in his garden in Wichita Falls, Texas, during her migration from Canada to Mexico. Includes facts about monarch butterflies.

The smallest turtle

1985
A newly-hatched turtle makes the dangerous journey across a beach full of obstacles to the nearby sea.

Nate the Great and the tardy tortoise

2005
As more and more of his flowers display the bite marks of a wandering tortoise, Nate sets out to uncover the mystery of the reptile's origins.

Tiny Timothy Turtle

1991
A young turtle, smaller than the other animals he associates with, finds there are some advantages to being small.

Hare and Tortoise race to the moon

an Aesop's fable
2002
Best friends Tortoise and Hare compete to see who will be first to reach the moon.

The race

2002
A modern rhyme retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

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