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Kirkus Reviews wrote "Disappointingly only the first three tales are about Tortoise" and "You'll recognize most of the ploys but these are for slightly younger readers than are most of Manning-Sanders' collections and they are appropriately snappy and short." [1] It also appeared in library programs [2] and school reading lists. [3]
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Franklin follows the eponymous growing young anthropomorphic turtle (specifically a tortoise - which is a subgroup of turtles - a species which belong to the order Testudines or Chelonia, reptiles having bodies encased in a bony shell). His television stories and books always begin, "(Franklin) could count by twos and tie his shoes".
Minn of the Mississippi is one of a series of children's travel and nature-themed books that Holling wrote in collaboration with his wife, artist and designer Lucille Webster Holling. [2] Holling's original publisher, Houghton Mifflin , advertised the group of five books, which also included Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941), Tree in the Trail (1942 ...
In contrast to their earth-bound relatives, tortoises, sea turtles do not have the ability to retract their heads into their shells. Their plastron, which is the bony plate making up the underside of a turtle or tortoise's shell, is comparably more reduced from other turtle species and is connected to the top part of the shell by ligaments without a hinge separating the pectoral and abdominal ...
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The tortoise was the symbol of the ancient Greek city of Aegina, on the island by the same name: the seal and coins of the city shows images of tortoises. The word Chelonian comes from the Greek Chelone, a tortoise god. [13] The tortoise was a fertility symbol in Greek and Roman times, and an attribute of Aphrodite/Venus. [33]
In 2007, a 10-year-old kid in zombie face paint became a viral sensation long before there was ever a term for it — all thanks to three simple words.