Flying Turtle

About the Book

This is the fourth of five stories I wrote for my grandsons Dylan and Kemper while they were students at the Montessori School of Rome in Georgia. Their mother, Miss Dolores, was a schoolteacher there. This is an educational story intended for the fifth grade and older students. It features the same set of jungle characters as the previous stories and focuses on the flying experiences of Turtle TUTTLE - the new kid in school. He flies high over the jungle, chases a rainbow, and gets hopelessly lost. He spends the night trapped in tall grass where he landed after an exhaustive search for his home. He must chew his way out of the grass and find a jumping off place in a renewed search for his home. Finally, his bird friends find him and escort him back to the school for a joyous reunion with worried family and new friends.

About the Author

John Gargus is a military veteran with distinguished service in the Air Force Special Operations Forces. He began lecturing and writing articles about the Vietnam War during his post military civilian employment as a school district director for maintenance. He authored a chapter on the history of the Air Force Special Operations for the book on The U.S. Special Operations Forces and also wrote two books on The Son Tay Raid – American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten in 2007 and Combat Talons in Vietnam – Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew in 2017. He wrote fi ve stories for his grandsons which are illustrated and published by Xlibris. He was born in Slovakia and writes articles about his childhood in his native language for publication in a quarterly magazine of his native village.