Welcome to Litsy!

Too cute for words! 🐭🐢

Here‘s the tale: Tortoise & Mouse are best friends & share a burrow. When their burrow floods tortoise digs them a new burrow…only more & more friends come needing a place to stay.

Here‘s the long list: Rabbit, Spotted Skunk, the Mole Skinks, Wolf Spider, Cricket, Frog, the Moth clan, Scarab Beetle, Snake & Fly.

Happy home, right? Only Mouse is nowhere to be seen so Tortoise is heartbroken. 💧😔💧

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I colored this picture of a sea turtle and wrote this story about it.

#haiku #haikuhive

I adore turtles! They are one of my favorite animals. So when I saw this picture cross my desk multiple times this summer, I thought I should check it out. It's a cute little story about a sea turtle who overcomes her fear of following the other turtles into the sea. Very cute and quick read. I loved the illustrations! Great for elementary classroom shelves too.

The giant turtles, tidal rivers and a drowned girl are the main characters in this fun addition to the series. The characters are interesting. The plot takes Nadya on a trip through in her life with the three different mothers she has experienced. 4.5/5⭐️

I colored this picture on Zen Color. I‘ve seen sea turtles hatch on nature shows and they really do this. They hatch on the beach and go out to sea quickly so they‘re not eaten by predators and I root for them.

Sea turtles have hatched out of their shells on the beach
They‘re going out to sea now
They need to go out to sea quickly before they get eaten by predators
🌊Go sea turtles! Go! 🌊

#haiku #haikuhive

I love when McGuire gives us the in-depth dive into characters we've already been introduced too.

She not only writes epic adventures with well love characters, but she so fluently adds such hard topics that I'm always amazed by her brilliance.

Another dazzling addition to the series.
I feel like I need to re-read them all... again.

Wonderful. The ART! The rendering of nature, the detail in both the borders and background and central figures on each page, the use of colour, the expression on the little turtle faces! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT. And of course, a great message contained within the narrative. So grateful Jan Brett was recommended to me.

Just gorgeous. And the meeting of Mossy and Scoot, so cute! 🥰

The greeeens! 😍💚

One of my favorite in the series, with a well realized world and characters you grow attached to in a short time. A sad ending as the portal books tend to be though. 4.5⭐️
#doublespin and another #roll100 pick done! I‘m now caught up with this series too.