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We're Going Boating!
These read-aloud picture books will introduce young children to the fun and excitement of boating.
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- Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate different kinds of boats and what they can do.
- Guirec Soudée tells the true story of his 3,400 mile sea voyage with his pet hen, Monique.
- A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty.
- Introduces young readers to all different kinds of boats in this bold and colorful board book. With simple text and vibrant illustrations, readers will learn about transportation by boat.
- A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.
- When Goat appears wearing a raincoat and invites all the animals to go for a boat ride on a sunny day, Dog declines but as heavy rain falls, Dog needs a boat, too.
- In this love letter to sailing, artist Nikki McClure tells the story of a restored boat in prose that perfectly accompanies her stunning cut-paper illustrations. Each page is masterful, rendered from a single sheet of black paper with precision and…
- In a comic take on the house-that-Jack-built formula, a little boy floats down the river in his own boat to study the creatures he finds. The book concludes with eight pages about ecology and the creatures of a northern river ecosystem.
- Off a small island, a boy and his grandfather set sail in their beloved fishing boat. They ride the waves, catching wants and wishes and seeing the wonders of the ocean.
- As a little boat's high seas adventures get underway, disagreeable passengers make her seasick. When she runs aground, will teamwork turn the tide?
- A toy boat gets separated from its owner and has an adventure on the high seas.
- A girl uses her imagination to turn an ordinary box into a sailboat.
- A child and his beloved giraffe go on a grand sea adventure.
- An old red canoe believes its best days are behind it and reminisces on past summers' adventures with a beloved boy until the boathouse door creeks open with the possibility for new adventures.
- A bear, a moose, and a beaver who are best friends, but often disagree, have a trying adventure when they decide to take a canoe trip together.
- A woman in a canoe takes the reader on a journey down the Hudson River, from its source, a lake in the Adirondack Mountains, to the point where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City. Includes a note on the history of the Hudson River.
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