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바다의 오염을 야기하는 수많은 해양쓰레기들, 그중에서도 특히 썩지 않고 오랫동안 바다를 떠도는 플라스틱 쓰레기 문제와 이런 해양 오염으로 인해 해양 생물들이 직면하고 있는 심각한 문제들을 주인공인 바다거북이를 통해 탐구하는 아름답고 서정적인 이야기.

꼬마 거북이는 온 마음을 다해 바다를 사랑합니다. 세월이 흐르면서 거북이는 아름다운 산호초를 향해 전 세계의 대양을 횡단하는 놀라운 여행을 반복합니다. 그러나 날이 갈수록 거북이는 바다에서 좋지 않은 변화가 일어나고 있다는 것을 느끼게 됩니다. 한 때는 아름답고 활기가 넘쳤던 곳이 이제는 플라스틱과 비닐과 같은 쓰레기로 채워지고 있으며, 거북이는 폐그물에 걸리는 바람에 죽음을 맞이하게 되었습니다. 하지만 위기의 순간에 다이버들이 나타나서 거북이를 구해주게 되고, 사람들은 바닷속의 쓰레기들을 청소하기 시작했습니다, 위기에서 살아난 거북이는 다시 넓은 대양을 향해 머너먼 여행을 떠나게 되고...






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Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1680101994
ISBN-13: 978-1680101997
책 크기: 28.8 cm x 25.2 cm



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Book Description
A beautiful, lyrical story which explores the problem of plastic in the ocean, and the challenges facing marine life.
Little Turtle loves the ocean with her whole heart. As the years pass, she repeats an incredible journey across the world to the beautiful coral reefs. But one day she finds that plastic has invaded her beloved ocean. Could Turtle's journey be over forever?


Book Trust
This beautiful picture book starts right at the beginning of Little Turtle’s life as she pushes out of her egg and pulls herself across the beach to the sea. We follow her life story through the stunningly illustrated blues and greens of the ocean.
Little Turtle is a delightful character with the cutest little smile and a face full of expression as she happily swims around the ocean making friends wherever she goes. Each year her love for the ocean grows as she travels across it to lay her own eggs and have her own children; until one heartbreaking day, the ocean starts to change. Little Turtle comes face to face with her first plastic bag - she tries to make friends with it but is met with eerie silence. From there things get worse and worse until she’s caught in a fisherman’s discarded net. But the story ends on a hopeful note as Little Turtle is saved by conservationists .
The picture book is a beautiful and hopeful introduction to young children about the threat of plastic to marine life and the natural world under the sea. Of course the subject matter is upsetting for everyone, but this book focuses on what we can do and reiterates that it’s not too late to sort this problem out. After the story there are four pages of helpful information on the issue of ocean pollution, what can be done to reverse it and how all of us can help.


English Association
This book helps younger children learn about the life cycle of the turtle and discover the problems faced by the turtle as plastic invades our oceans and seas. The story shows how the life of one turtle is a struggle. The story of the journeys of the turtle’s survival over the years and how pollution in the sea and the destruction of coral reefs endangers the turtle is a must for all confident young readers aged 4 to 7. The damage caused by filling of our oceans and seas with plastic and rubbish combined with the destruction also of coral reefs is something that all young children should learn about. This book highlights to young children the need to look after our oceans and seas, and conveys this message well. It is also a story for reading to young children and a useful resource about environmental pollution for primary school teachers. The last 4 pages of the book contains a Glossary of terms, notes about the 3 r’s, the plastic problem, how it gets into oceans and the Great Garbage Patch. This superbly illustrated and beautifully written story of the Little Turtle brings home the problem while at the same time providing the young reader with some hope for the future. A must for all primary school children and for parents and teachers to read to younger children.