Turtle Spring

by Lillian Hoban

The Turtle family is puzzled by a very strange bump under the lettuce bed in their garden.

47 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

The youngest of three children, Lillian Hoban was born in Philadelphia on May 18, 1925. She attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, studied dance for ten years (and danced with the Martha Graham dancers), taught Modern Dance and danced professionally in the 1950s.
She learned to draw still life and began to write her own stories only after having children (Phoebe, Brom, Esme and Julia), and based her tales on their experiences.

Lillian Hoban's I-Can- Read-Books about Arthur the Chimpanzee, and the Frances books (written by her former husband Russell Hoban) continue to be extremely popular among children as time goes by- the hallmark of classics.

from http://www.lillianhoban.com/Biography...

Reviews

[Onn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a nice, quick book to talk about Spring and turtles with my young class. However, there is extensive mention of there being a bomb under the lettuce bed. Times have changed since this book was written in 1978, and so I changed the word "bomb" to monster to avoid parental concern.