Boats Float!

by George Ella Lyon, Benn Lyon, Mick Wiggins (Illustrator)

Overview

Set sail into the world of boats in this buoyant companion to Trucks Roll! and Planes Fly!

Sails and engines
paddles and oars
make the trip
from shore to shore.

Boats float!

From steamships to ghostships, to the little and big in-between ships, this fun, rhyming book explores a wide array of boats. The third in George Ella Lyon’s transportation series, Boats Float! Takes to the seas with dynamic illustrations that will keep even the youngest of readers eager to turn the page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481403818
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	86 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

George Ella Lyon is the author of Trucks Roll!, Planes Fly!, and Boats Float!, cowritten with her son Benn. Among George Ella’s other books are the ALA Notable All the Water in the World, What Forest Knows, and Time to Fly. A former Kentucky Poet Laureate, she lives with her family in Lexington, Kentucky. Visit her online at GeorgeEllaLyon.com.

Benn Lyon is the coauthor of Boats Float! and caretaker of the new town hall in Popperville.

Mick Wiggins is an award-winning illustrator living and working in Little Rock, Arkansas. His work can be found in George Ella Lyon’s Planes Fly! and at MickWiggins.com.

Editorial Reviews

2015-06-29
Ahoy, maties! As in her Trucks Roll! (2007) and Planes Fly! (2013), Lyon and her co-author celebrate a ubiquitous, well-loved form of transport in verse and launch it along on young readers' imaginations. Numerous boats of all kinds and sizes, from different cultures and parts of the world and used for a variety of purposes, including play and habitation, are introduced here. Young readers will be awash in vessels plying waterways from rivers to lakes, ponds to bathtubs, and pools to oceans. Front and back endpapers feature a floating parade, and the colorful digital illustrations of the various boats and their environs showcase many shades of watery blue and exude spirited energy. The staunchest of landlubbers will yearn to set sail; one can almost hear the gently lapping waves. Overall, the verses are jaunty, though the rhymes and rhythms are inconsistent, sometimes even a bit clunky. Children will appreciate learning nifty new seafaring terms such as "poop deck," "head," "bilibilis," "wherries," "coracles," and "dinghies," all italicized in the text, as they picture themselves at the helm of any of the boats floating on these pages. In some illustrations, however, it's not always clear to which boats certain terms refer, so parental sailing expertise may be required. Young navigation enthusiasts, from bathtub ships' captains to ocean-cruiser wannabes, will enjoy this voyage. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews