Iron Canuck Reviews & More: Review Tour: Sammy the Sailing Sea Turtle by Gwendol with an excerpt, a giveaway, and my review

SAMMY THE SAILING SEA TURTLE

by Gwendol

GENRE: Children's

BLURB:

This book is a fantasy about a little sea turtle that is born different, and an "Only." These are things he is teased about by the other "littles" in Sea Turtle City society. He overcomes this teasing/bullying with the advice of his two wise friends, Rainbow, a parrot, and Magic, a dragonfly. He also makes friends with two beautiful dolphins. He learns to look for the reasons other littles are bullies. In the end, Sammy becomes an important and loved hero in his Sea Turtle society. I wrote this story to show young people today they can become more than their disabilities if they work hard and don't give up.

EXCERPT:

Samuelson spent several moments shaking the sand out of his eyes and nose and spitting the sand out of his little hooked mouth. He then took his first breath of fresh air. That first breath felt wonderful. He loved air from the very first breath. He breathed in another giant breath. A scent in the air came from the ocean. He sensed that was where he had to go. He took another breath and looked around. The scene was magnificent in the dim light. He looked above and saw a big ball of light. It was the moon. Stars twinkled above the rolling waves of what he somehow knew to be the ocean.

Then he heard it calling to him again.

“Come to me, Samuelson. I am waiting for you.”

From behind him came a spray of sand and two little things with flippers and a hooked snout just like his. The little things crawled right over him, using their flippers to pull and push themselves along. He knew that he should go with them.

He tried using his own flippers the same way. He quickly found it was not easy to move his flipper things.

He climbed the rest of the way out of the hole in the sand and saw with amazement that there were lots and lots of little flippered things crawling on the sand in the moonlight toward the place where the waves of water arrived to meet the sand.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Gwendol is a compassionate and imaginative author whose words have the power to inspire and uplift readers of all ages.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124124483-sammy-the-sailing-sea-turtle

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sammy-Sailing-Sea-Turtle-Gwendol-ebook/dp/B0BZW66YNF FREE on AU

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GIVEAWAY

The author is giving away a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly-drawn winner.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f4636/

My Review - 4 of 5 stars -

How to be a little sea turtle. I loved it. I enjoyed this story with its lessons in being different, hurt feelings, and doing the right thing, helping out others. Samuelson was born different than the other little turtles. As he found his way to his parents, Sea Turtle City, and school, he found unusual ways to accomplish tasks. The illustrations were beautiful and added to the story. A good story to read with your children as a family.