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Description
Simple text and photographs introduce beginning readers to common box turtles.
Quick Summary
Packed with stunning close-up photographs, this little book gives kids a front-row seat to discover one of nature's most unique creatures hiding right in their own backyard. Young readers will be amazed by the box turtle's incredible ability to close its shell completely like a secret treasure chest and will love learning cool facts about how these shelled survivors have been around since the age of dinosaurs. If your kid devours the "National Geographic Kids: Snakes" reader or any animal fact book at this level, they will absolutely crawl toward this turtle treasure. Ideal for kindergarten through second-grade readers at a late first to early second-grade reading level.