Follow The Moon Home

Written by Phillipe Cousteau

Illustrated by Meilo So

Bluebonnet Award Winner

 

 

Vivienne and Clementine are friends and activists. The friends realize that all the lights shining onto the beach from beach houses end up disorienting newly hatched turtles to the point that the go in the wrong direction and end up in danger. However, Vivienne and Clementine come up with a plan to keep this from happening. After a community meeting, it is decided that the next time a batch of turtles hatches, for those few moments, the community will turn off the lights of their homes so that the turtles can be guided to the ocean by the moonlight.  

 

This bluebonnet winner is beautifully illustrated so that the pictures and words work together to get the purpose of the book across. This book would be great in a lower elementary classroom, like first or second grade, to help teach students about the life cycle of turtles and the importance of activism.