- Tugboats, Juvenile fiction, Tugboats in fiction, Fiction
Little Toot the tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm.
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Resolved, classical in form, earnest and effortless.
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Hardie Gramatky
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 94
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Putnam & Grosset Group, The Trumpet Club
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440842293
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First sentence
“At the foot of an old, old wharf lives the cutest, silliest little tugboat you ever saw.”
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