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Turtles Books
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We Found a Hat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,820 ratings — published 2016
Turtle Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.76 — 638 ratings — published 2020
Alfie (The Turtle That Disappeared)
by (shelved 17 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,163 ratings — published 2017
Turtle and Tortoise Are Not Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.81 — 458 ratings — published 2019
Turtle Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.63 — 453 ratings — published 2014
Turtle Wish (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.50 — 167 ratings — published 2013
The Box Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,066 ratings — published 2020
Melvin and the Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.78 — 353 ratings — published 2011
Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.10 — 399 ratings — published
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,961 ratings — published 1958
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.22 — 952 ratings — published 2016
Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.78 — 439 ratings — published 2001
Giraffe Problems (Animal Problems)
by (shelved 8 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,057 ratings — published 2018
Hi, Harry! (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.71 — 177 ratings — published 2003
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,043 ratings — published 2023
A Loud Winter's Nap (Fiction Picture Books)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,074 ratings — published 2017
Esio Trot (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.74 — 47,338 ratings — published 1990
Turtle's Penguin Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.86 — 472 ratings — published 2008
How Old Is Mr. Tortoise? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.95 — 390 ratings — published
Memoirs of a Tortoise (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.40 — 605 ratings — published
One Tiny Turtle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.14 — 860 ratings — published 2001
Emma's Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.85 — 236 ratings — published 2007
Nellie's Big Splash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.92 — 227 ratings — published
The Book of Turtles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.49 — 375 ratings — published 2023
I Am Stuck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.35 — 571 ratings — published 2023
Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.34 — 294 ratings — published 2023
Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.26 — 361 ratings — published
A Mouthful of Minnows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.27 — 298 ratings — published
Ducks Run Amok! (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.86 — 247 ratings — published
Where's My Turtle? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.48 — 139 ratings — published
The Town of Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.60 — 265 ratings — published 2018
Always Remember (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.33 — 512 ratings — published 2016
Hare and Tortoise: (A Whimsical Retelling of the Classic Fable Emphasizing Perseverance, Patience, and Determination - Retold for Ages 2-5)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.82 — 381 ratings — published 2016
Have You Seen Elephant? (Gecko Press Titles)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536 ratings — published 2015
Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,495 ratings — published 2006
Hip & Hop, Don't Stop! (A Hip & Hop Book)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.89 — 282 ratings — published 2010
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.26 — 929 ratings — published 2006
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,040 ratings — published 2022
Is This Your Class Pet? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.92 — 278 ratings — published
The Rock from the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,908 ratings — published 2021
Croc & Turtle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.81 — 271 ratings — published 2019
Who Wants a Tortoise? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.80 — 427 ratings — published 2016
The Tortoise & the Hare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,732 ratings — published 2013
A Place for Turtles (A Place for..., 6)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.16 — 109 ratings — published 2013
Sea Turtles (New & Updated)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.01 — 147 ratings — published 1995
The Beach House (Beach House, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,367 ratings — published 2002
“It’s turtles all the way down.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“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
