Chase the Moon, Tiny Turtle

By Kelly Jordan, Sally Walker (Illustrator)

A baby turtle's perilous journey to the sea under moonlight.

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32 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Experience the world through the eyes of a newborn loggerhead turtle as it hatches and races against predators to reach the ocean. Guided by moonlight, it narrowly escapes crabs, owls, and foxes, finally finding peace in the sea. Will it survive the journey and join its pack in the moonlit waters? This lyrical tale reveals the majestic and dangerous seaside landscape from a unique perspective.

From the publisher

Young readers will witness rare and extraordinary natural event as a baby loggerhead hatches from its shell. With nothing but the light of the moon to act as a guide, readers will follow the newborn turtles’ harrowing attempts to outpace a series of predators on their march toward the glistening shore. After only narrowly avoiding hungry crabs, owls, and foxes, the turtle rides ocean waves to a calm clearing. Following a moment of peace in the still ocean water, the turtle joins the rest of its pack on a dive into the moonlit sea to continue the voyage home. Told with a beautiful, lyrical rhyming sequence, this book introduces readers to the birth cycle of a loggerhead sea turtle. Through the newborn turtle’s eyes, both kids and adults will marvel at the majestic, and sometimes dangerous seaside landscape from a perspective rarely seen before.

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