Mary Beth Owens was inspired by her
admiration and concern for these critically endangered animals to write and
illustrate this beautiful book. The narrator-a craggy, ancient jumby tree that
stands sentinel over the bay-observes a hawksbill's arrival by night, her
arduous trek to excavate a nest and bury her eggs, her solitary return to the
sea, and the later diaspora of her hatchlings. Spare prose complements pages
saturated with Caribbean color or brooding in ghostly moonlight.