Paddle-to-the-Sea / written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [1969], ©1941.Description: 1 unpaged volume : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0395150825
- 9780395150825
- 0395292034
- 9780395292037
- Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Juvenile fiction
- Great Lakes (North America) -- Juvenile fiction
- 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
- Saint Lawrence Seaway -- Juvenile fiction
- Caldecott Honor Book, 1942
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | HOLLING HOLLING | Checked out | 05/30/2024 | 33111010932990 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book
A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle's journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of the region.
Reprint. Originally published: 1941.
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.
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.
Caldecott Honor Book, 1942