Mossy has a good story to children will like to listen, but it's too long story for very young children. This book has been used small letters,so I think young children can't read by themselves. Using this book children can learn about nature and more vocabulary about nature. It has some alliteration words like misty, moisty, and morning so, children can understand about same initial sounds in the different words. Jan Brett write a book about the practice in the Victorian days of creating small specimen museums. Dr. Carolina who runs the museum finds an odd but fanciful turtle and keeps it in the museum. A year later in a moment of conscience she releases the turtle back to the environment. Lovely pictures, a lovely end of story. and another age when museums were interconnected with personal collecting. Worth reading and then discussing the moral lessons involved. Liked the way the book was set up.
Jan Brett has out done herself. The illustrations and fantastic and the story is heart warming.
—xalexarcadex
Good choice for Earth Day or unit on environment, animals,etc.
—holly_golightly1991
Beautiful illustrations .. sad and hard to believe story.
—Savannah
so beautiful any budding naturalist would want this book.
—mary
Beautiful.
—lnibbelink2012
