- Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Canoes and canoeing, Indians of North America
A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle's journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of the region.
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Earnest, plot-driven, grave and warm.
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- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Holling Clancy Holling
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 61
- Publisher
- Houghton, Tandem Library, Houghton Mifflin Company
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395292037
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Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy, August 2, 1900 – September 7, 1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holling_C._Holling
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