The Littlest Turtle

The Littlest Turtle by Lysa Mullady is a picture book about the importance of using your voice to speak up for what is fair and right. 

For years, the little turtles climbed on top of the big turtles to eat the freshest fruit from the top of the bushes. The big turtles ate the fallen berries—sour and rotten. Littlest Turtle follows along with this tradition until she hears the feelings of the big turtles. Littlest Turtle sees how unfair this all is and thinks about the important question: would it be so hard to share?

Follow along as Littlest Turtle joins together with the big turtles, speaks up for change, and comes up with a new tradition that works for all turtles, no matter the size!

Lysa Mullady has been an elementary school counselor for 30 years. She was born and raised on Long Island, New York, where she still lives with her family and golden-doodles. She is the author of Bye Bye Pesky Fly, Three Little Birds, and Red Yellow Blue.

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Erica Salcedo is a freelance illustrator. She completed a fine arts degree at the University of Castilla la Mancha and then a master’s degree in graphic design and illustration at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

She lives in Cuenca, Spain.

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