Customer Reviews

The Flying Ferry Boat: An Amazing San Francisco Adventure

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What an experience! If you live within 100 miles of San Fransico and have children go straight to the project section in the back of the book. You and you children will have an unbelievable experience living a fantasy inside the book. It really lets you imagination take off! (even for us adults). The Flying Ferry Boat was an absolute pleasure to read and I highly recommend it to all families.

We read this book before we went to San Francisco. We loved the tall tale and appreciated the wonderful activities suggested. I would recommend this book to any family planning to visit the Bay Area.The facts concerning San Francisco Bay are correct and it was fun to think about what parts of the story were true and what parts were fantasy.

This was a terrific book to read before our family visited San Francisco. We loved visiting the places suggested and had a wonderful time imagining the characters in the various spots.

This story reads well for the suggested age group. There is a lack of drama and descriptive visuals when talking about the bay area. Readers not familiar with this area would have a hard time visualizing what the area look like. I was hard press to define the plot and the consequences that would fall upon the area if the Bay wasn't cleaned. I felt a need to have more intrique and adventure with conflicts threaded throughout the story. To read this story to a group of, say, third graders, the reader will need a lot of time explaining and describing cities like Oakland and Marin plus others events to the listening kids. I enjoyed the reading the book and I found myself anticipating more action than is built into the story. I had a friend read this book to see if she would come to the same conclusions. She did. She is an assistant principal in her school. I hope I am being fair and honest in writing my review of this book. I don't want to discourage the writer. She is a good writer. This appears to be her first book and her efforts are good. We need more people to write books for our children to read. So please keep writing.

I am so happy that this story is available for other children to read. The author, Judy, is my mother and my Great Grandfather used to tell us this story about the flying ferry boat, Joe Dobe and Captian Nimbo when my sister and I were young. I hope that many other parents will read it aloud and share the experience with their children