Customer Reviews

Sarah's Boat: A Young Girl Learns the Art of Sailing

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I read this this book to my 4-year old daughter, Sarah. She loves it, and has learned some important sailing concepts from it. We are building a live-aboard sailboat, and have been very concerned about child safety. After reading _Sarah's Boat_, we find her playing sailboat in the back yard, coming about and ducking the imaginary boom! She has been able to stand on a beach and judge the direction of the wind, and predict whether we could take a straight course to the opposite shore, or whether we would need to tack. She gleans this knowledge from what she considers a bed time story. I wish there were more books like this!

Good sailing info for kids coupled with sportsmanship or right-living concepts in a nice wholesome story. Good stuff for the 8 to 12 crowd.

My son does not like to read - but he does like boats and sailing. This book had the perfect amount of story line and was filled with enough real facts about sailing for him to enjoy it! He loved the characters (especially the boys who were spirited enough to make trouble but good sports enough to be good examples!) Seriously - it is the only book I have ever read with him (and we read a lot) where he said at the end, "That was a good book."
A quality book for children - both boys and girls.