Julieta and the Secret in Sand: A Sea Turtle Story About Waiting for What We Love (Ages 5-8)

Julieta knows her beach by heart: where the crabs sleep, which rock keeps the best echo, and when the sea turns gold.But one morning, the sand wakes up with new tracks. Wide. Deep. Like a little tractor had walked right out of the sea...Behind the dunes waits a secret - and beach secrets take sixty nights to open. Sixty nights is almost forever when your hands are itching to help.A warm, luminous picture book about waiting for what we love - built on the true, astonishing science of sea turtles: hatchlings walk to the sea on their own to imprint their beach in their memory, and decades later they return to the very beach where they were born.For families who love: ocean stories, real animals, quiet books without a lesson attached that stay with you anyway.- Ages 5-8 (read-aloud 5-6, independent 7-8)- 15 watercolor scenes set on the island of Floripa, southern Brazil- Includes "The Real Beach" 3 true sea-turtle facts- Featuring Farofa, the dog who digs every hole Julieta can'tThe beach where you were born always waits for you.