The Turtle's Shell

By Vincent Eke

The Turtle's Shell tells the story of Tobi, a smart turtle who thinks he can get away with deceiving his friends. He ends up learning a few shell cracking lessons. This friendly easy-to-read book shows children how our everyday actions and decisions always consequences. This story also draws attention to the nuggets of wisdom embedded in African cultural stories which can be emulated by any child whatever their racial background.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vincent Eke
• Release date: May 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781909688025

Vincent Eke

Vincent Eke is a professional children’s book writer, blogger and website developer. In addition to Mama’s Tales of Kanji - The Turtle’s Shell, his debut early reader-grade fantasy adventure storybook, he has also written another children’s picture book in this series, The Golden Bird and a new forthcoming series The Adventures of the Lovejoys for Lionpen Publishing.

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MAMA’S TALES OF KANJI

THE TURTLE’S SHELL

By

Vincent Eke

With Love for my family

You are my inspiration

Published 2013 by Vincent Eke at Smashwords

Text & Illustration Copyright Vincent Eke 2013

The moral rights of Vincent Eke to be identified as author and illustrator of this book have been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without the prior written permission from the author and publisher.

British Library Cataloguing Data. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-909688-00-1 Paperback

ISBN 978-1-909688-01-8 eBook-Kindle

ISBN 978-1-909688-02-5 eBook-ePub

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Reviews for The Turtle's Shell

[skstiles612 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love reading folklore. This story tells how the turtle got the patches on his shell. This is a wonderful story that teaches children the importance of compassion, community service, not being greedy, doing the right thing, sharing, caring for community. The story is told to a group of children by a wise woman of their village. When famine his the animal kingdom the lion calls a meeting and they decide to find food and share it. However, the turtle sets out with great intentions but becomes greedy and doesn't share with his fellow animals as agreed. This is a story that children and adults of all ages will enjoy reading over and over. The cool thing is that this story book has coloring pages within it.I look forward to reading more by this author.