A Children’s Coastal Adventure Book Series
Join Gert, a curious little sea turtle, as she explores the beaches and ocean life of the South Carolina coast. Through colorful adventures and lovable characters, Gert introduces young readers to early learning concepts like counting, colors, and emotions while fostering curiosity about the natural world.
The Complete Gert Collection
Follow Gert from numbers to colors to feelings through three illustrated coastal stories written and illustrated by Maxine Moody Poston.
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Awards & Recognition
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Each Gert adventure introduces an early learning concept through coastal scenes, gentle humor, and the original picture-book artwork children remember.
Counting Adventure
Children learn numbers through playful seaside discoveries as Gert encounters dancing crabs, racing sea horses, leaping dolphins, and other ocean friends. Each page introduces the next number in sequence and gives children a simple way to count along from 1 to 10.
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Color Discovery
Bright coastal scenes help young readers learn colors. From blue beach buckets on the sand to a bright orange setting sun, children discover the beauty and colors of the seaside along with Gert.
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Emotional Learning
Gert experiences feelings including happiness, fear, anger, sadness, gratitude, forgiveness, and trust. The story gives children familiar words for talking about emotions and friendship.
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Gert is a curious young loggerhead sea turtle who lives along the beautiful South Carolina coast. While her siblings swim out into the deep ocean, Gert decides to stay by the sea to explore the amazing world around her.
With her “pearls of wisdom” necklace from her mother and her conch shell sailboat, Gert sets out on adventures along the beach where she learns counting, colors, and emotions.
SEE stands for
Through Gert’s adventures, children are encouraged to ask questions, discover nature, and develop a lifelong love of learning.
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Publishing Imprint
SEE Turtle Publishing is the publishing imprint of The Poston Foundation for Maxine Moody Poston’s Gert the SEE Turtle books.
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Coverage & Official Announcements
Independent coverage and official recognition of the Gert the SEE Turtle series.
November 11, 2013 · A regional feature on Maxine Moody Poston and the publication of Gert the SEE Turtle in: Counting .
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