The Tugboat and the Silver Moon
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A timeless picture book from the creator of the Red Truck and Friends series about a ship stuck in a canal and the moon that set it free.
The silver moon sails through the vast blue sky as a cargo ship down below is stuck in a canal. The tugboat tugs until the line goes taut. The diggers scoop up enough sand for a castle. The dredger glugs all the silt he can. But it's no use. For seven long days, the moon watches as the ship stays put, becoming fuller, brighter, closer, until she's finally strong enough to pull the ocean into a mighty tide and save the ship.
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When strong winds cause a cargo ship to get stuck sideways in a canal, neither protagonist Tug nor hardworking dredgers and diggers can get her free. But the silver moon's "dance with the earth and the sun raised the tides that help ships," and her orbit eventually moves her into a position where she's "the fullest and closest and strongest she could possibly be," Hamilton writes. Now a supermoon, "she pulled the sea up in a mighty tide. A KING TIDE!" that propels the cargo ship out of the sand. Gott's digitally rendered illustrations present a fully anthropomorphized toylike world: puffy-cheeked clouds create the wind, the poor cargo ship sheds anxious tears ("Ships float. That's what we're supposed to do"), and the moon is concerned but confident—the very picture of a benevolent force. An afterword explains the science behind the story. Ages 3–7.
