Sea Turtle's Amazing Journey!
Written by SurfWriter Girls Sunny Magdaug and Patti Kishel
Long-distance open-water swimmer Lynne Cox never fails to inspire and motivate with her fiction and non-fiction books about extraordinary achievements and acts that connect living beings to one another.
Her latest children's book, Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius, will have you cheering for the title character as she battles against impossible odds to return to the place where she was born and lay her eggs. An ocean journey that will require her to swim 23,000 miles!
Based on a true
story, this book of courage and determination chronicles Yoshi's adventure,
swimming a record-breaking distance for any being, single-mindedly striving toward
her goal.
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Cox’s writing style is both descriptive and lyrical, characterizing Yoshi at birth as “just the size of a smile.” Later her beautiful shell grows into “the shape of a heart.” And swimming “in the vast ocean, she was just a dot.”
SurfWriter Girls Sunny and Patti are longtime fans of Cox and continue to be in awe of her accomplishments in the sea and on land, as a record-breaking swimmer, talented author, and motivational speaker.
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Whether Cox is
writing about her own adventure swimming with a whale calf that's been
separated from its mother, the antics of an elephant seal in New Zealand who
becomes part of a small town's community, or the heroics of an Italian water
rescue dog, she draws you into the story.
Yoshi, illustrated by
Richard Jones, will enthrall children and adults alike, spinning a beautiful
story about the wonders of nature. Like Cox's other works, it also highlights
the innate drive of living beings to survive and the importance of
family.
Sunny Magdaug and Patti
Kishel hold the exclusive rights to this copyrighted material. Publications
wishing to reprint it may contact them at surfwriter.girls@gmail.com
Individuals and non-profit groups are welcome to post it on social media sites
as long as credit is given.
