boats and boating

Presents fish tales, advice, drawings and photographs, and personal stories about fishing, boating, and watching water wildlife, and includes information on fishing equipment and techniques, paddling, rowing, and motorboating, using binoculars, and related topics.

Poems describe a variety of watercraft, from birch bark canoes to cruise ships, and reveal their impact on the world.

Discusses such sea-going vessels as whalers, trawlers, tugboats, research ships, hydrofoils, and hovercrafts.

Readers are able to create their own adventure and participate in this story about a capsized boat, a stormy lake, and a dangerous situation.

In 1916 on an island in Lake Superior, Carl builds himself a boat by bartering with the other islanders for parts and labor.

This expanded version of the traditional singing rhyme shows what happens when a family of bears rows their boat down the stream. Includes music on the last page.

Illustrations and brief text present various types of boats: ferries, rowboats, sailing ships, oil tankers, and more.

Jenny imagines sailing across the ocean to visit her friend Maria.

Describes the various boats used in ancient Egypt.

Experiments to do at home or school with home equipment, showing basic principles of how boats float and move and how planes fly.