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Summary: Fondest memories
Review: I read this book many times as a child at school years ago now. Memories of it are still vivid. I must get the book again sometime soon and take a trip down memory lane.
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Summary: So happy to find this after 35 years
Review: I read this book when I was a boy. I don't even know how I came to have it, but I was facinated by the drawings and story. It was one of the few books I really read from cover to cover. Now that I have 5 children of my own I thought I would look to see if I could find a used copy and was so happy to see it back in print. My children love it just as much as I did at their age.
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Summary: A great sense of adventure in an area where I grew up.
Review: I read this when I was a young girl and it always remained with me. Now I am a grandmother and was thrilled to know it is still in print. I loved the great sense of adventure and all the help that Paddle-To-The-Sea received as it made it's way to the ocean. I grew up in the Niagara region and always felt a part of this great adventure and want my grandchildren to learn this story and come to love it as much as I do.
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Summary: A Journey Down the Great Lakes and Beyond
Review: I remember encountering Paddle to the Sea as a second grader in Oregon. It's one of those books that was shared during library day, and I still haven't forgotten it. It was significant to me as a child, and it's still significant today. It's the wonder and amazement of how a wooden carved canoe with its lone Indian paddler referred to as "Paddle" could journey from his origins, Nipigon Country, to the Sea towards the Grand Bank and France, could confront eye-popping experiences. Paddle sees the serene sounds of the cool Canadian waters, and the bewilderment of man's progress with a sawmill and its smoke-pipe buildings, which author, Holling Clancy Holling, ferociously describes as a monster eating away nature's domain -- tearing down trees and running an assembly line of log jams.
Despite that scene, Paddle to the Sea contains imagery and imagination, which makes the book memorable. The artwork is great, and Holling's very descriptive language and familiarity of geography makes this book a learning experience. I found chapter 24 to be quite interesting because of its short snippet of history -- the discovery of the Great Lakes region, Champlain "the Father of New France" and the Iroquois. Every chapter in the book, all twenty seven, covers each different region that Paddle flows through, and bears significance to how the free-flowing waters, be it Lake Superior or the crashing waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, cannot stop a wooden canoe and its Indian paddler from riding through.
Every child should read Paddle to the Sea, or have it read to them. And as for older children or adults that still want to revisit their curiosity of imagination, they will definitely find it unforgettable. You never forget about the books that touch you in some way.
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Summary: A Must for Every Child's Library
Review: I remember reading this book many times as a child. I bought the book for my own children who also enjoyed it. I've just purchased a copy for my granddaughter.A marvelous introduction to the geography and culture of the Great Lakes. Many of the pictures from this book are still green in my memory.
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Summary: Excellent book across the generations.
Review: I spent hours and hours reading PADDLE-TO-THE-SEA when I was a little boy. The illustrations and their annotations added depth and interest to an already wonderful text. Now, forty-five years later, I am having the wonder of this book renewed as I read it to my granddaughter - who remains mesmerized as she learns about iron ore, Canadian Indians and the great waterway from the center of our continent to the outside world.
What a wonderful way to teach - and share a great book over the generations!
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Summary: I THINK THIS BOOK IS EXCELLENT
Review: I THINK THAT PADDLE TO SEA WAS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I EVER READ. I ENJOYED THIS BOOK BECASE I LEARED SO MUCH, ABOUT THE GREAT LAKES.
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Summary: I think this book is ok.
Review: I think this book teaches you about native amereicans.I only gave this book a 5 . I like it because Paddle has so many adventures.
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Summary: It keeps you guessing what will happen next.
Review: I think you should read this book because it will keep you guessing like when Paddle was stuck on a log and when he went up the bull chain to a sawmill. It kept me guessing because my reading group read 1 or 2 chapters at a time.
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Summary: It is the best story I have ever read.
Review: I think you would like Paddle-to-the-Sea. It is about a little boy who whittled a little guy named Paddle in a canoe. Paddle sails through the Great Lakes which are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Huron. I think you would really like Paddle-to-the-Sea.
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