Float
A boy’s small paper boat—and his large imagination—fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own.A little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure. The...
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A boy’s small paper boat—and his large imagination—fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own.A little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure. The boy and his boat dance in the downpour and play in the puddles, but when the boy sends his boat floating down a gutter stream, it quickly gets away from him.So of course the little boy goes on the hunt for his beloved boat—and when the rain lets up, he finds himself on a new adventure altogether.This seemingly simply story from Daniel Miyares is enriched with incredible depth and texture that transcend words.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781481415248 (1481415247)
ASIN: 1481415247
Publish date: 2015-06-09
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
This book brought back memories of floating paper boats and sticks down the street gulley when I was a kid. I remembered jamming up the street grates with leaves so our “floats” would ride onto the next street. Twirling and swirling, this was a race to see whose “float “would make it the furthest. W...