The first two pages are also placed as the last two pages in All About Turtles , showing turtle tracks in the sand. Jim Arnosky is an environmentalist encouraging children to get outdoors and search for the details he has included in his pictures within his books. What I am fascinated with is the way he captured the eyes of the sea and snapping turtles. There is a picture of a red-bellied turtle with the neck outstretched basking in the sun, except there is no red to be seen on this turtle. You will learn that some turtles are aquatic while others hibernate during the winter months that live in northern climates.
Turtles are freshwater, saltwater or land-dwelling with more than two hundred species.
A painter turtle is aquatic while the tortoises are land-dwellers. The largest sea turtle would be the leatherback, weighing over a thousand pounds and growing up to eight feet long. When venturing into salt water you will find the sea turtles. There are two pages of photos of the various turtles followed by two pages full of diagrams of the turtle shell. The shell is made of colorless bone.