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I get one for every new mom and they love it too. They range in ages starting from tiny babies to 10 years old. It's a great buy. I read this book to the children at church during "Children's Time" and they all loved it. They were talking about for the day.
It will make you fall in love with turtles and see God, people and the world in a glorious new perspective. I remember being in Junior High almost 20 years ago and having a youth minister read me this book. Amazing artwork and message. I get goosebumps still every time I read it. Very few books have ever moved me in this way. I buy this book as a gift for young children and adults of all ages.
Quite possibly, Lion would still roar and Bear would still growl. just maybe. Old Turtle provides the voice of wisdom and perspective in the face of arrogance and faith. But maybe. people would rather listen to Robin. This book teaches how our own personal experiences shape and define how we see and define "God" and the only one with the completely correct definition is "God" Himself/Herself/Itself. Would we still be fighting Holy Wars in 2009 if everyone read this book as a child.
The basic idea seems to be "just tell kids that this is good and they'll believe it." I believe strangers with candy take the same approach, but their spiel is a bit more believable.Normally this would be a no-brainer for a zero star review, but I'm giving it a single star because Cheng-Khee Chee's watercolors are attractive and do a better job at getting the story across than Wood's ham-fisted attempts at telling a story. There is no attempt at subtlety here, much less any attempt at allegory. Wood has no use for such niceties as thoughtful word choice or poetic structure. Douglas Wood, Old Turtle (Pfeifer-Hamilton, 1992)Books come to what I optimistically call my TBR list (though I know there's no way I'll be able to read them all before I die; I'd have to get through four or five a day if I live to one hundred) in many different ways, so many that much of the time I don't remember how one book or another got there; Internet recommendation, press release, library flyer, a dozen other sources. * So when it comes right down to it, I have no idea why Old Turtle ended up on my list this year, unless I put it there as a combustible (my term for books I add to the list because their premises are so awful I cannot help but think it's going to get an horrendous review). I also don't remember, given that I add two or three dozen books a day, what it is about the vast majority of the books on the list that might have attracted me back when I added them. For Old Turtle cannot have come to my list through any other valid means unless whatever I read that caused me to add it was entirely duplicitous; it combines my two least favorite subjects, environmentalism and religion, and presents them in such a way as to make them even more unpalatable, if possible, than normal.
this book provides such a valuable lesson to children and adults, alike.People can worship, what and who they want.or not.The book is worth purchasing even if just for the artwork.
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