Blue Boat
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
For babies and toddlers who love learning about vehicles of all kinds comes another colorful book in the Red Truck and Friends series! This rhyming read-aloud sets sail with a new kind of vehicle—boats!
★ “A well-crafted text spiced with sound effects… highly recommended for reading aloud.”—Booklist (starred review), on Red Truck
Splashing crashing mighty waves!
Blue Boat’s coming! Blue Boat’s brave!
A mighty storm is coming, and Blue Boat receives a call from a smaller boat in distress. Only a tugboat as rough and tough as Blue Boat can rescue them! Follow along as Blue Boat navigates the open seas, sailing through the storm surge, under the drawbridge, and over powerful waves to save the day! Young readers will love exploring the visually appealing illustrations, mimicking Blue Boat’s sound effects, and learning about different kinds of boats through simple rhyming text.
This charming and adventurous story will have little sailors plunging in again and again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hamilton and Petrone follow Red Truck and Yellow Copter with the story of Blue Boat, an anthropomorphic tugboat with a sweet smile and a female captain at the helm. Receiving a distress call from a family stranded on a red sailboat, Blue Boat and the captain attempt to save the day before a brewing storm makes the waters impassible. Petrone's smooth, chunky shapes evoke the feeling of bathtub toys, counterbalancing the growing tension. Hamilton, meanwhile, creates a pleasing mix of rhyme, alliteration, and sound effects: "Ding! Ding! Ding!/ Decks awash!/ Clouds churn black./ Rescue vessels/ must... turn... back.../ all but Blue Boat." Readers who are entertaining dreams of captaining a ship someday will celebrate the brave efforts of this "rough, tough tugboat." A board book edition is available simultaneously. Ages 2 5.
