The Turtle (4) (Lighthouse Family)

Sweet sweet book series! My 8 year old has read the first 4 now. Innocent, good values, no snarkiness as found in most books for that age range

With fantastic illustrations. Purely innocent stories with animals as the main characters. The animals have wonderful character traits such as kindness, putting others before self, obeying elders, helping those in need (particular in this book). I highly recommend all the books in the Lighthouse Family Series.

Cynthia Rylant is a marvelous author and obviously quite prolific. She is the author of the "Poppleton," "Henry and Mudge," and the "Cobble Street Cousins," series as well as numerous other books. I bought this particular series for my nieces (ages 4 and 7). They are short, almost novellas, but Rylant does not "talk down" to her audience instead exposing our young ones to higher level vocabulary. The adventures the Lighthouse Family have, especially the three orphaned/adopted young mice, are exciting, but quiet; no extreme violence, fearful chases or shoot 'em up. They make great bedtime reading.

So we read just about everything by Cynthia Rylant (see "Mr Putter and Tabby") - but the Lighthouse Family series introduces young readers to chapters with 'more words on the page'. The stories are sweet, warm and fuzzy but also keep the student's attention as they wait to see how the problem in each story is resolved. The characters are charming. This is a 'safe' series I used for 2nd grade readers and character discussions. Highly recommend!

My children love this whole series. Had to read a whole book in one sitting. Great story lines and morals/values added as well. Nice chapter books for reading to my kids. A few pictures scattered throughout the chapters to keep interest.

Cynthia Rylant is always good and these books are some of her best, a very fine series, great illustrations as well. Sweet sweet all around.

Good story but illustrations are almost impossible to decipher; they are not colored and my 3 and 5-yr.-old could not clearly see the characters. The book is a rough-paged paperback enclosed in a fresh hardbacked cover, which has a nice colored illustration on the front. I would not have bought this if I had realized the format.

This book was pretty good, but even I found it a little boring reading it to my 8 year old. She liked it well enough, but didn't ask for it over and over again like she does so many other books we read.

Lighthouse Familyに新しい友人が登場します。仲間と行き外れた亀さんをなんとか暖かい海に返してあげようと、みんなが協力します。ほのぼのとしていて暖かいお話。中学程度の英語力で読めます。