They nibble salad or crawl ever so slowly around their habitat, even when it's a lovely beach. They look for seashells, make sandcastles and play tug of war. And that's exactly what Valerie Hardin lets her Turtles do. And then, one by one, a turtle swims away. Again, the remaining turtles come up with funny things to do.
Small kids love stories featuring animals who act like humans.
And they are fascinated by numbers. I remember when my daughter Natalie was 3 years old and I had to count things for her day in day out. One day, Twiggle is carried away in the beak of a jackdaw. Wurgle and Swiggle are sent on a dangerous mission to find Twiggle and bring her back home. Glimp, a friendly imp who talks in a cute rhyming singsong, helps them to rescue the poor, unhappy Twiggle, who is held captive in a spider's lair.