In this fanciful picture book for the very young, adorable all-mouse crews ride rowboats, sailboats, tugboats, and snug boats across brightly colored seas. In the water, full of water, out of water, underwater-boats of all kinds sail among the stars and dance around the moon. Simple, rhythmic text and colorful illustrations filled with charming details make this a perfect book for sharing at bedtime.
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From Publishers Weekly
Featured against solid, boldly hued backdrops depicting various waterscapesAfrom a bathtub to an open oceanAboats of all shapes and sizes come into clear focus in Greenburg's (Down in the Subway) cheerful art. Litowinsky's minimal, straightforward text provides labels for the specific types of craft ("Tankers," "Kayaks") and groups the boats thematically ("Boats working hard night and day"; "Boats for pleasure everywhere"). Pictures and narrative take a fanciful turn in the closing pages, where airborne vessels, including a creatively painted Viking ship and an ark worthy of Noah "Sail among the stars/ Play around the moon." As a follow-up to this dreamlike scenario, the final page reveals a scattering of ships floating above a sleeping child's bed. Colorfully clad, diminutive mice make up the boats' crews and sunbathe on an ocean liner, picnic in a canoe and water ski behind a speedboat. Their diverting antics give the book its buoyancy. Ages 2-5. (Sept.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Sail into bedtime with this colorfully illustrated catalog of boats. The appealing mouse crews set out on tugboats, tankers, kayaks, sailboats, and freighters "in the harbor," "on the sea," "in the sky," "among the stars," "All night long." There are working boats, pleasure boats, toy boats, underwater boats-too many to mention. Tots will cheerfully point to and identify them all as they float into slumber counting boats instead of sheep, and seafaring and landlubbing parents alike will love sharing it with them.
Jennifer J. Gallant, Cleveland Public Library, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Jennifer J. Gallant, Cleveland Public Library, OH
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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By Liz Cary "Lizzie" (Upper midwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Boats for Bedtime (Hardcover)
My son's very first word was "boat!" and now that he is 2 he is still fascinated by them. We were given this book as a gift and we love it. The pictures are beautiful. The text starts out informatively, naming and describing different types of boats--but towards the end it becomes fanciful, as the boats "sail among the stars" and the child falls asleep. If you have a little boat-lover in your family, or even if you don't-yet, this book will not disappoint you.
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