Children’s Book List

Compiled by Lorri Cramer, Director of Rehabilitation and Education Click title to go to purchase information (Amazon.com or publisher). (Links open new browser windows; close to return to this page.)

Nonfiction Books

• All About Turtles, by Jim Arnosky (2000)
• Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles, by Kathryn Lasky (2001)
• A Look Inside Reptiles, by June Chatfield (1995)
• Leatherback Sea Turtle (Animals in Danger), by Rod Theodorou (2001)
• Leatherback Turtles (The Untamed World), by Melanie E. Watt (2001)
• Look Out for Turtles, by Melvin Berger (1996)
• Life Cycle of a Turtle, by Ron Fridell, Patricia Walsh (2001)
• Sea Turtles, by Gail Gibbons (1998)
• Sea Turtles (Ocean Life), by Martha E. H. Rustad (2001)
• Sea Turtles Past and Present, by Marianne Johnston (2000)
• Sea Turtles, by Emilie U. Lepthien (1996)
• Sea Turtles, by Lorraine A. Jay, (2000)
• The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle, by Bobbie Kalman (2002)
• Tortoises, by Chuck Miller
• Turtles, by Anita Baskin-Salzberg & Allen Salzberg (1996)
• Turtle in the Sea, by Jim Arnosky (2002)
• Turtles: Life in a Shell, by Sara Swan Miller (1999)
• Turtles (Zoobooks Series), by Timothy Levi Biel and others
• Turtles Take Their Time, by Allan Fowler (1992)
• Turtles and Tortoises, by Joan C. Hawxhurst (2000)

Fiction

• And Still the Turtle Watched, by Sheila MacGill-Callahan, (1991)
• Box Turtle at Long Pond, by William T. George
• Box Turtle at Silver Pond Lane, by Susan Korman, (2001)
• Chelonia. Return of the Sea Turtle, by Dawn Navarro, Robert Snodgrass and Wallace Nichols (2000)
• Esio Trot, by Roald Dahl (1999)
• Freefall: A Sea Turtle Falls from the Sky, by Lyn L. Hoppes (1999)
• Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon, by Gerald McDermott (2001)
• Little Turtle: And the Song of the Sea, by Sheridan Cain, (2000)
• Lucille Lost: A True Adventure, by Margaret George and Christopher Murphy (2006)
• Minn of the Mississippi, by Holling Clancy Holling (1957)
• Old Turtle, by Douglas Wood (1995)
• One Tiny Turtle, by Nicola Davies) (2001)
• Sea Turtle Journey: The Story of a Loggerhead Turtle, by Lorraine A. Jay (1995)
• The Journey of a Turtle, by Carolyn Scrace, David Salariya (2000)
• The Smallest Turtle, by Lynley Dodd (2000)
• Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons, by Joseph Bruchac (1994)
• Tracks in the Sand, by Loreen Leedy (1993)
• Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!, by April Pulley Sayre, (2000)
• Box Turtles, Unusual Pets, by Lynn M. Stone (2002)
• Turtles (All About Pets), by Martha E. H. Rustad
• Becoming Best Friends With Your Iguana, Snake, or Turtle, by Bill Gutman, March 2001
• Turtles (Perfect Pets), by Susan Schafer (1999)

Videos

• Audubon Video: Sea Turtles: Ancient Nomads,
• Nature: The Reptiles: Turtles and Tortoises, PBS (2003)