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3) The old boat
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"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. But soon the boy is sailing the boat himself, drifting further from shore as the waters grow muddied and turbulent. When a storm washes him ashore, he sees home in a new light. He decides to turn the tides of his fortune, cleaning the island's waters and creating a new life with...
4) The toy boat
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A toy boat gets separated from its owner and has an adventure on the high seas.
5) Wrecker
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Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas--just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida! Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't...
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"Sal loves the water. All day, he thinks about it: being out there, just him and the waves, alone. More than anything else, he wants a boat. And he knows just what it would look like. So he decides to build it himself. It isn't long before everyone in town starts sharing advice. But Sal doesn't need their help. He knows just what he's building. And he does it! Except...he forgets one crucial detail--that no project, big or small, can be launched without...
11) Barky boats
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"Bluey and Mackenzie are excited to see their buddies, but will Mia and Captain still have time to play with them?"--
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"This poignant yet lighthearted affirmation asserts the uniqueness of each individual and reassures readers that while life is complex, sometimes messy, and even occasionally catastrophic, it is all part of the journey. While the topic may seem a bit mature or daunting for very young readers, the story has such quirky sparkle that even if readers don't quite get its meaning, they will be delighted with its sense of playfulness." --Kirkus, starred...
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For Fans of... Elephant & Piggie! (SCPL-YS)
Great Reads: Kindergarten thru 1st grade
If You Liked...Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems
Great Reads: Kindergarten thru 1st grade
If You Liked...Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems
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Illustrations and rhyming text introduce an increasing, then decreasing, cast of characters sharing a boat in a moat with a pig in an enormous wig.
14) Float
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April Showers (kids)
Under My Umbrella - ROD Children's
Wordless Picture Books - ROD Children's
Wordless Wonders
Under My Umbrella - ROD Children's
Wordless Picture Books - ROD Children's
Wordless Wonders
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"Wordless picture book about a boy who loses his paper boat in the rain"--
16) The wanderer
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"Without a word, and with Escher-like precision, Van den Ende presents one little paper boat's journey across the ocean, past reefs and between icebergs, through schools of fish, swaying water plants, and terrifying sea monsters. The little boat is all alone, and while its aloneness gives it the chance to wonder at the fairy-tale world above and below the waves uninterrupted, that also means it must save itself when storms approach. And so it does....
17) Boats on the bay
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Illustrations and easy to read text portray a variety of vessels, from houseboats to dredgers, through the course of a busy day on the bay.
19) Red kayak
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Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
20) Boats will float
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text observe a wide variety of boats that spend all day, from early morning until dreamy night, on a bay, in the ocean, or under the sea.
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