A review by mbayne
The Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye

1.0

Rarely do I give a book one star because usually if I don't care for a book that much I do not finish it and thus do not rate it. However, when you are a librarian you sometimes get assigned reading and this was one of the books that was assigned to me as a children's librarian. Everyone else in my grouped loved it. Of all the books we were assigned, this one I just could not get into it and I couldn't really imagine a child reader enjoying it every much. I gave it one star simply because I did not enjoy it.

I do not think this book was without merit. The prose is good. It taps into true childhood emotion of homesickness. It's a good peek into another culture and another part of the world. Despite all of that, I did not find it engaging.