My Turtle

(back cover)

My Turtle

My Pet Series

Filled with instructive, easy-to-understand information, vivid color photos, and attractive sidebar features, the titles in Barron's My Pet Series offer guidance to new and prospective pet owners.

Your Turtle's Health

The author advises on all important details regarding diet, terrarium environment, and taking health precautions.

Understanding Your Turtle

You'll find fascinating information about the traits and habits of turtles, their development, their sensory capabilities, their likes and dislikes, and much more.

Information for Parents

Here's advice on getting your children acquainted with turtles and learning to care for them.

Information for Pet Sitters

When you go on vacation, you can give your pet sitter the author's easy-to-fill-out checklist. That way, you'll be sure that all your turtle's needs are taken care of.

The particularly attractive format that characterizes titles in Barron's My Pet Series helps inexperienced pet owners find answers to frequently-asked questions and understand how they can meet the needs of their newly acquired pet. These handsome books are accessible to older children as well as adults. My Turtle discusses all aspects of turtle care, including proper feeding, setting up a terrarium, recognizing and treating a turtle's health problems, and even breeding. Like all other books in this series, My Turtle is filled with easy-to-understand reference charts, fact-filled sidebars, and hundreds of handsome and instructive color photos. A photo-illustrated quick-reference turtle-care checklist is presented on the book's cover flaps.