Paddle-to-the-Sea /

Holling, Holling Clancy,

Paddle-to-the-Sea / written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling. - Boston : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [1969], ©1941. - 1 unpaged volume : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Reprint. Originally published: 1941.

How paddle-to-the sea came to be -- Long river reaching to the sea -- Paddle starts on his journey -- Brook and beaver pond -- Breakup of the river -- Paddle meets a sawmill -- Paddle meets a friend -- Largest lake in the world -- Paddle crosses two borders -- Life in northern marsh -- Paddle finds one end of Lake Superior -- Fish story -- Adrift again -- Shipwreck -- Dry dock -- By dog sled to the soo -- Non-stop down Lake Michigan -- Paddle returns to the north -- Forest fire -- Through Lake Huron -- Paddle reaches Lake Erie -- Paddle takes a great fall -- Lake Ontario -- at last -- Along the great river -- Rivers in the sea -- Paddle finds a new friend -- On a wharf.

A toy Indian in a toy canoe takes a journey of several hundred miles through the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, and Niagara Falls before it reaches the Atlantic Ocean.

Caldecott Honor Book, 1942

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Indian boys--Juvenile fiction.
Canoes and canoeing--Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels--Juvenile fiction.
Wood-carved figurines--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Canada--Juvenile fiction.


Great Lakes Region (North America)--Juvenile fiction.
Great Lakes (North America)--Juvenile fiction.
Saint Lawrence Seaway--Juvenile fiction.


Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.

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