Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story about an Amazing Swimmer

By Lynne Cox

Book Overview

In this picture book that is both heartwarming and exciting, join Yoshi, a sea turtle, on her remarkable journey as she swims farther than any animal in recorded history--23,000 miles!--to return to the beach where she first hatched, to lay her own eggs.

Inside every loggerhead turtle is genius: the ability to find their first home, no matter how far away. Follow one, from her birth on a beach in Australia...to her trip across an ocean filled with sharks and seahorses and much more...to her rescue from a net by a fisherman, who names her Yoshi...to her rehabilitation at an aquarium...to her record-breaking swim across the Indian Ocean to the beach on which she hatched, to lay her eggs.

Written by Lynne Cox, also a record-breaking swimmer, here is the true story of a sea turtle who swam the longest distance of any animal in recorded history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593425685
• ISBN13: 9780593425688
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3