Our Bookstorm™ book, The Shadow Hero, is the origin story of a superhero, The Green Turtle. While this character is not an actual chelonian — though that would be an awesome super hero — there are many turtles and tortoises in children’s literature. Some might even be, technically, terrapins. Here are some notables.
And then there’s Peter’s pet turtle that his brother Fudge swallows in “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.”