Friday, February 16, 2024

Lynne Cox Book Yoshi Inspires

 

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. 


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.  



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. 



 
To learn more about Lynne Cox and her other books, see this SurfWriter Girls story: SurfWriter Girls: Swimmer Lynne Cox is the Write Stuff 

 


 
 

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