Synopses & Reviews
A small toy boat cruises the seas -- and runs into scores of real-life ocean creatures
-- Using vivid, whimsical illustrations and simple text, this picture book follows a toy boat California to England
In this delightful and marvelously educational picture book, a young boy launches a tiny red toy boat into the ocean off California, and we follow it as it travels 'round the world to the coast or England. On every page, we catch a glimpse of the ocean life the boat encounters -- both beneath the sea and on the surface.
From Baja to Australia, the Cape of Good Hope to the Sargasso Sea, the boat is surrounded by teeming sea creatures: brown pelicans, sea otters, killer whales, a hammerhead shark, flying fish, loggerhead turtles, an octopus, penguins, a blue whale, a Portuguese man-of-war, dolphins, and puffins, to name just a few. Throughout, Jakki Wood's vivid watercolor illustrations bring these marine creatures alive for young readers, making the book a wonderful primer in marine biology.
"In the simple pen-and-watercolor illustrations, the animals are lively and genuinely cute". -- Kirkus Reviews on Four Fierce Kittens