num_pages: 32
description: Who will help Mossy return home to Lilypad Pond? Mossy an amazing turtle with a gorgeous garden growing on her shell loses her freedom when Dr. Carolina a biologist takes her to live in her Edwardian museum. Visitors flock to see Mossy but it is Dr. Carolina's niece Tory who notices how sad Mossy is living in a viewing pavilion. She misses the outdoors and her friend Scoot. Dr. Carolina finds a way to keep the spirit of Mossy alive at the museum.... Then she and Tory take Mossy home where Scoot is waiting for her. Jan Brett fans will pore over the colorful paintings of Lilypad Pond and lush borders displaying wildflowers ferns butterflies and birds in contrast to elegant spreads of the museum filled with visitors in stylish Edwardian dress and exquisite borders of shells rocks crystals and birds' eggs.MOSSY gives readers a fascinating look at nature in the wild and on display in a natural history museum. 
language: English
title: Mossy
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons