A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele, for a short trip but soon their boat encounters "unforeseeable anomalies," strange storms, a terrifying sea monster, and the rank remains of The Very Last Sandwich.
In the whole village, Kodua has only one friend. Everyone else laughs at him and calls him names, but one day Kodua decides that he will do something with his life. He will build an ark.
Describes the process by which fiberglass boats are made, from the melting of glass marbles to create the fiberglass to the molding and finishing of the boat.
Before he can go fishing, a boy has to figure out how to get himself, his dog and all his gear out to an island in a boat that can only carry 100 pounds.
In the first of many possible adventures involving dressing up in colorful old clothes, Huxley Pig dons a sailor suit and takes an imaginative sea voyage from his bedroom.