A charming book about asking for help and finding friendship in unexpected places. With humorous, charming and cute illustrations, the reader is taken on a journey learning about different sea creatures along the way. It is a wonderful book about the importance of being helpful and friendly to others and is a witness to how kindness has a ripple effect across people we come across day-to-day. A wonderful book that I would be proud to read to my children time and time again.
Just before sunset, a tiny turtle emerges alone from the sand. He immediately realises something important is missing. His shell! While investigating himself, he catches sight of the sparkling sea and longs to go to it, but first he must find his shell. While trying not to get eaten, he finds himself explaining his predicament to a peckish pelican, a slippery seal, a burrowing beach mouse and a huffy hermit crab, who teaches him how to find a new shell. With the support of his unlikely new friends, the tiny turtle makes his way to the sea with a new shell and dives into the breaking waves. Soon after, the tiny turtle answers a call for help from a shell-less slimy sea snail clinging to a rock. The tiny turtle plucks the sea snail from the rock and tucks him into his new shell, telling him not to worry, he knows exactly what to do about the sea snail’s predicament.
