Tim the Tortoise

by Susan Meredith

16 pages

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Susan Meredith grew up in Yorkshire, and when she wasn't playing out or dancing, she was busy reading or making little books of her own, mainly about ballet. She's now written more than 20 real books for Usborne, on subjects ranging from saving the planet to playing football, from world religions to the human body. Her book Growing Up won the Times Educational Supplement's senior information book of the year award but her own personal favourite has to be Hamsters.

Reviews

[Courtney · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fantastic book for guided reading with students. Young readers will love joining Tim on his search for his mother as he asks the cheetah, fish, and zebra if they are his mother.

Students could find ways to relate to him thinking of times they couldn't find their mom or dad, and how scary it was. There are also a variety of activities that could be used to recognize letters in words or even recognize punctuation in the story since it includes commas, question marks, exclamation points, and quotation marks. The idea of patterns is also introduced as a starter for geometry, and students could participate in pattern activities.

I would recommend this guided reading book and others like it to teachers in Kindergarten or 1st grade classrooms.

[Nikkik0428 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is a really cute book for beginner readers. I like that the baby tortoise has to use comparison to find its mother. I would recommend this book for kindergarten, or first grade.