The Baby Turtle: Band 03/Yellow (Collins Big Cat) (Collins Big Cat)

This photographic non-fiction book tracks the life of a turtle. Initially meeting the mother, we stay with her eggs and follow a hatched baby turtle along the dangerous sands to the sea. A story of survival, the turtle returns to the beach to lay its own eggs.

* Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.

* Text type - A non-fiction recount.

* A flow-chart on pages 14 and 15 provides an opportunity to recap and discuss the story.

* Curriculum links - Science: Life processes and living things; Humans and other animals.

Publisher: Collins

Published: UK, 4 June 2012

Format: Paperback, 16 pages

Dimensions: 21.1 x 0.3 x 29.7 centimeters (0.05 kg)

Writer: Andy Belcher, Angie Belcher, Cliff Moon

About the AuthorAndy Belcher is an international freelance photographer based in New Zealand. A specialist in adventure travel and underwater action. Angie Belcher's stories feature many of the dare-devil activities she has enjoyed, including white-water rafting, bungy jumping, scuba diving and caving.