Ten Turtles To The Sun

Ten Turtles to the Sun - A Counting-to-Ten Storry Tank the Turtle and His Friends
By Bethany Miller
Ten turtle friends live down by Sunny Pond, from Tank, the biggest, to Rufus, the tiniest. The ten, in size order, are Tank, Echo, Sammy, John, Sheldon, Bob, Kendall, Gus, Kiwi, and Rufus.
One chilly morning they decide to stack up to get closer to the warm sun. It tumbles three times: first with smallest-on-the-bottom, then mixed-up any-old-way, then fastest-first. Tank finally suggests biggest to smallest, and it works. They count their way up the tower - Tank is 1, Echo 2, Sammy 3, John 4, Sheldon 5, Bob 6, Kendall 7, Gus 8, Kiwi 9, and tiny Rufus tiptoes to the top as 10 - and Rufus stretches up to the sun.
The lesson, in the book's heart line, is "God made every size, and every size has its place." The verse is Lamentations 3:23, with the full King James Version - "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness" - on the closing prayer page.
It is a 24-page picture book: story pages 3-17, then a verse page, The End, Talk About It questions, Draw a Turtle, a Dot-to-Dot 1-10, a Prayer for a Sunny Day, and Did You Find Them? on the last page. Every story picture also hides three little mice - one brown, one gray, one white - in a different spot each time.