When I first received this book, I thought, “Oh no, another ‘save the endangered enter cute animal here’ book.” However, I soon realized that this book is not that at all. It has wonderful details about turtles. Did you ever wonder where all the turtles go in the winter? “…in the cold winter months, they can burrow into the mud at the bottom of a lake and hibernate, getting their oxygen in a different way” (p. 10). There is also a great diagram of turtle anatomy with brief descriptions of several major structures. The level of detail is perfectly appropriate for most students but may be a little “light” for advanced high school students. For example, I wanted details about how the frogs breathe in the winter.
Saving Turtles is meant to interest students in becoming active conservationists. There are some pretty graphic pictures of turtles that have been...
University of California Press