Hawksbill Promise: The Journey of an Endangered Sea Turtle [Hardcover]

A gentle, beautiful evocation of one of nature?s great mysteries.Mary Beth Owens was inspired by heradmiration and concern for these critically endangered animals to write andillustrate this beautiful book. The narratora craggy, ancient jumby tree thatstands sentinel over the bayobserves a hawksbills arrival by night, herarduous trek to excavate a nest and bury her eggs, her solitary return to thesea, and the later diaspora of her hatchlings. Spare prose complements pagessaturated with Caribbean color or brooding in ghostly moonlight.There is a deserted bay on a smallisland off Antigua where hawksbill turtles crawl ashore at night during themating season to lay their eggs. Two months later the hatchlingseach weighingless than an ounceemerge from the sand and scramble to the sea in themoonlight. Only a lucky few survive. 5 stars! Hawksbill Promise: A Sea Turtles Journey is a good story forany age of reader who enjoys the islands because chances are that theyalso love turtles. There is a lot to be learned from this story, and theadded information included at the end of the book was a definite bonus.Read Hawksbill Promise: A Sea Turtles Journey, and you will learn a lot about the journey of this special sea creature. 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List