Litsy

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

#haiku #haikuhive

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lil1inblue 🐢 💚 💙 💚 🐢 1mo

JenlovesJT47 🐢🐢🐢💚💚💚 1mo

AnnCrystal Lovely and Beautiful 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🐢🌊🐢🐝💝. 1mo

julieclair Sea turtles are so amazing! 1mo

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kelli7990

Sea Turtles | Gail Gibbons

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

JenlovesJT47 Love this! 🐢🐢🐢 2mo

AnnCrystal
🐢Beautiful 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🐢🤩🐢🐝💝. (edited) 2mo

julieclair This is adorable! 2mo

dabbe L🐢VE! 💚🐢💚 2mo

lil1inblue 💚🐢💚 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Mossy | Jan Brett

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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.

Texreader That is a darling cover!! 💐 3mo

TheBookHippie I love this book. I own two copies 🤣 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Mossy | Jan Brett

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

TheBookHippie I love this book so much. 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Mossy | Jan Brett

The greeeens! 😍💚

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LiseWorks

Miles and Miles of Reptiles: All About Reptiles | Tish Rabe

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Who doesn't like to learn about reptiles with the Cat in the Hat. #ISpyBingoMay @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 3mo

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monalyisha

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell | Sy Montgomery

so-so

Sy Montgomery really seems to have taken the idea of “Turtle Time” to heart. I cannot say if this is typical of her writing style…but oh my goodness, this book seemed to last forever. The irony is not lost on me that I wished it would move faster! I found some bits to be repetitive, as well. I could‘ve done with fewer of Fire Chief‘s recovery details, in particular. The message is sweet & sound — turtles DO deserve saving. And cars ARE terrible.

monalyisha 1/2: I‘d be willing to try another of Montgomery‘s books in the future. I‘d read it in print (instead of listening to the audio, as I did this time around) to see if the change in format impacts how I receive her style. I‘m a little worried that her writing might not be for me, though! I think it‘s that the sweet bits are almost *too* earnestly sweet. 4mo

monalyisha 2/2: Despite fully acknowledging the realities of climate change and the overwhelming environmental impact that humans have had in such a short period, Montgomery‘s tone teeters on the edge of saccharine. 4mo

monalyisha *Note: While TRL‘s mission and overall vibe is *incredibly* impressive and heartwarming, to this Milennial, “TRL” will always stand for (MTV‘s) Total Request Live. I think Alexxia and Natasha might not be much older than I am. I wonder if their abbreviated name conjures up the same association for them! 4mo

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shanaqui I thought I remembered liking Sy Montgomery's book about octopodes, but I went and looked and I gave it 2/5 with some of the same caveats. 🤔 So yeah I suspect her work may just... be that way. 4mo

muscogulus 👍 @shanaqui for “octopodes” 4mo

shanaqui @muscogulus Aside from any correctness grammatically, I find the word octopodes so fun to say. Octopodes! 4mo

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monalyisha

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell | Sy Montgomery

When I bought tickets to watch this documentary film with a longtime friend at our childhood stomping grounds in Worcester (MA), I wondered if the (human) stars of my current audiobook would be there.

They were! 🐢

I drove past the house I grew up in, too, for the first time in about a decade. There are solar panels on the roof now and the front yard looked lovely. There were even a couple of young flowering trees. It made me happy to see.

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 4mo

Amiable The Ecotarium!! My kids used to love that place when they were little and we lived near there. 4mo

monalyisha @Amiable It was my favorite place when I was a kid (though it was called The Science Center then)! I loved riding the little train around with my grandpa, saying hi to all of their animals, learning about rocks and crystals, crawling through tunnels, and staring up at the “stars” in the Planetarium. We were so lucky to have it nearby! 4mo

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Amiable @monalyisha Did you also go to the Higgins Armory Museum? My boys LOVED it. My oldest son had his 5th-birthday party there —the highlight was when they helped him cut his cake with a medieval sword. 😄 4mo

monalyisha @Amiable YES! I took my husband there on one of our first dates, in fact! I wish we could‘ve been married there. Then, I could‘ve cut my wedding cake with a sword — like your son (& Alice Roosevelt, which I always thought was a totally bad-ass move)! Sadly, it closed (maintenance costs for the building were too high) & the collection was divvied up (mostly to the Worc. Art Museum) by the time we got married. Should‘ve picked up the pace, hubby! 😜 4mo

monalyisha @Amiable I took him to the Ecotarium, too, actually, which he referred to as “the fake zoo.” He‘s lucky I didn‘t dump him. 😅 4mo

Amiable @monalyisha 🙊🙉🙈🤺 (that‘s the best I can do for an offended zoo animal wielding a sword 🗡️ ) 😄 4mo

monalyisha @Amiable 😂 A valiant attempt. I‘m honored that it was made. 4mo

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