Mary Beth Owens was inspired by her admiration and concern for these critically endangered animals to write and illustrate this beautiful book. The narrator—a craggy, ancient jumby tree that stands sentinel over the bay—observes a hawksbill’s arrival by night, her arduous trek to excavate a nest and bury her eggs, her solitary return to the sea, and the later diaspora of her hatchlings. Spare prose complements pages saturated with Caribbean color or brooding in ghostly moonlight.
- ISBN10 0884484300
- ISBN13 9780884484301
- Publish Date 30 July 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tilbury House,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 36
- Language English