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Paddle-to-the-Sea / written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395150825
  • 9780395150825
  • 0395292034
  • 9780395292037
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Awards:
  • Caldecott Honor Book, 1942
Summary: 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.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction HOLLING HOLLING Checked out 05/30/2024 33111010932990
Total holds: 0

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

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