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We Found a Hat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,351 ratings — published 2016
Turtle Walk: A Joyful Picture Book About Turtles and the Four Seasons for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 24 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.77 — 664 ratings — published 2020
Alfie (The Turtle That Disappeared)
by (shelved 18 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,196 ratings — published 2017
Turtle and Tortoise Are Not Friends: A Funny Picture Book About Opposites Learning Friendship for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 17 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.80 — 474 ratings — published 2019
Turtle Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.64 — 464 ratings — published 2014
Turtle Wish (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.50 — 167 ratings — published 2013
Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.06 — 601 ratings — published
The Box Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,107 ratings — published 2020
Turtle Splash!: Countdown at the Pond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.80 — 455 ratings — published 2001
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.15 — 36,380 ratings — published 1958
Melvin and the Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.78 — 355 ratings — published 2011
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.22 — 973 ratings — published 2016
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,831 ratings — published 2023
Giraffe Problems (Animal Problems)
by (shelved 8 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,145 ratings — published 2018
Hi, Harry! (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.72 — 182 ratings — published 2003
A Loud Winter's Nap (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,170 ratings — published 2017
Esio Trot (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.73 — 49,300 ratings — published 1990
One Tiny Turtle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.14 — 894 ratings — published 2001
Turtle's Penguin Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.87 — 486 ratings — published 2008
So Tortoise Dug (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.97 — 380 ratings — published 2025
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children, #10)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,159 ratings — published 2025
Memoirs of a Tortoise (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.39 — 628 ratings — published
Emma's Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.87 — 244 ratings — published 2007
The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle: A Heartwarming Story of a Lucky Turtle for Kids (Ages 4–8)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.48 — 197 ratings — published
Nellie's Big Splash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.92 — 321 ratings — published
I Am Stuck: A Humorous Picture Book About Turtle, Friendship, and Emotions for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.37 — 646 ratings — published 2023
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,327 ratings — published 2022
Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.35 — 334 ratings — published 2023
Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.27 — 384 ratings — published
How Old Is Mr. Tortoise? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.97 — 417 ratings — published
A Mouthful of Minnows: A Humorous Picture Book About Patience and Friendship for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.27 — 315 ratings — published
The Rock from the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,221 ratings — published 2021
Ducks Run Amok! (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.86 — 257 ratings — published
Where's My Turtle? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.50 — 143 ratings — published
Croc & Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.81 — 302 ratings — published 2019
The Town of Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.63 — 275 ratings — published 2018
Always Remember (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.34 — 525 ratings — published 2016
Hare and Tortoise: (A Classic Aesop's Fable About Perseverance, Patience & Determination for Preschool and Kindergarten Classroom Read-Alouds and Kids Ages 2-5)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.82 — 390 ratings — published 2016
Who Wants a Tortoise? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.81 — 429 ratings — published 2016
Have You Seen Elephant? (Gecko Press Titles)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,574 ratings — published 2015
Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,502 ratings — published 2006
The Beach House (Beach House, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.22 — 31,229 ratings — published 2002
Hip & Hop, Don't Stop! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.89 — 281 ratings — published 2010
Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.98 — 228 ratings — published 2000
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.27 — 955 ratings — published 2006
The Book of Turtles: A Fact-Filled Picture Book About Beloved Reptile Species for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.49 — 407 ratings — published 2023
The Fastest Tortoise in Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.96 — 277 ratings — published
“I am going where turtles win
I am going
where conmen puke and die
Down the sad esplanades
of the official world.”
― A Coney Island of the Mind
I am going
where conmen puke and die
Down the sad esplanades
of the official world.”
― A Coney Island of the Mind
“All stories are incomplete. Yet in order to construct a viable identity for myself and give meaning to my life, I don’t really need a complete story devoid of blind spots and internal contradictions. To give meaning to my life, a story needs to satisfy just two conditions: first, it must give me some role to play. A New Guinean tribesman is unlikely to believe in Zionism or in Serbian nationalism, because these stories don’t care at all about New Guinea and its people. Like movie stars, humans like only those scripts that reserve an important role for them.
Second, whereas a good story need not extend to infinity, it must extend beyond my horizons. The story provides me with an identity and gives meaning to my life by embedding me within something bigger than myself. But there is always a danger that I might start wondering what gives meaning to that ‘something bigger’. If the meaning of my life is to help the proletariat or the Polish nation, what exactly gives meaning to the proletariat or to the Polish nation? There is a story of a man who claimed that the world is kept in place by resting on the back of a huge elephant. When asked what the elephant stands on, he replied “that it stands on the back of a large turtle. And the turtle? On the back of an even bigger turtle. And that bigger turtle? The man snapped and said: ‘Don’t bother about it. From there onwards it’s turtles all the way down.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Second, whereas a good story need not extend to infinity, it must extend beyond my horizons. The story provides me with an identity and gives meaning to my life by embedding me within something bigger than myself. But there is always a danger that I might start wondering what gives meaning to that ‘something bigger’. If the meaning of my life is to help the proletariat or the Polish nation, what exactly gives meaning to the proletariat or to the Polish nation? There is a story of a man who claimed that the world is kept in place by resting on the back of a huge elephant. When asked what the elephant stands on, he replied “that it stands on the back of a large turtle. And the turtle? On the back of an even bigger turtle. And that bigger turtle? The man snapped and said: ‘Don’t bother about it. From there onwards it’s turtles all the way down.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
