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Summary: Paddle To The Store And Get A Copy Of This Book!
Review: Paddle-To-The-Sea was one of the first long books my mother read to me [early 60's] and one of the first long books I read on my own. Many elements make this a fantastic book for elementary school-age children: it is an excellent geography lesson, teaching the reader about the Great Lakes region; it shows a character being creative and sending his creation out into the world without knowing if there will be a return for his actions; the payoff for the carver of Paddle-To-The-Sea comes only after a long period of time. When I spent the summer of 1966 in Minnesota with my family, we visited many of the places in the book including Lake Superior. I remember how much the book informed that summer. Several years ago I revisited Lake Superior for the first time since '66 and the images of a small carved Native American in a canoe were still on my mind. Give this book to a young person so they can take its literary journey and have it leave them with a lasting impression.
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Summary: Paddle To The Store And Get A Copy Of This Book!
Review: Paddle-To-The-Sea was one of the first long books my mother read to me [early 60's] and one of the first long books I read on my own. Many elements make this a fantastic book for elementary school-age children: it is an excellent geography lesson, teaching the reader about the Great Lakes region; it shows a character being creative and sending his creation out into the world without knowing if there will be a return for his actions; the payoff for the carver of Paddle-To-The-Sea comes only after a long period of time. When I spent the summer of 1966 in Minnesota with my family, we visited many of the places in the book including Lake Superior. I remember how much the book informed that summer. Several years ago I revisited Lake Superior for the first time since '66 and the images of a small carved Native American in a canoe were still on my mind. Give this book to a young person so they can take its literary journey and have it leave them with a lasting impression.
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Summary: Read to me in third-grade and never forgotten.
Review: Read to me in 1966, this wonderful little story has stayed with me for 31 years. Particularly meaningful, growing up on a Great Lake that I would leave that year, the saga of the carved canoe, its storm-tossed occupant, and a journey of (then) unimaginable distance had great power then - and now. I've often reflected on the little canoe in the course of my own travels. This is book to share with every child who dreams about whats beyond the horizon. My thanks to the author. Sean
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Summary: Amazing
Review: The pictures make this book. They contain a level of phychic depths rairly seen. I read this book many times as a child, and even looking at it taday is exciting.
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Summary: Many people share in a boy's dream.
Review: The story is simple enough: a boy living in a cabin North of Lake Superior spends a winter carving a model of a man in a canoe. He places this paddle person he has made so that the Spring melt launches it on a voyage that takes it through the length of the St. Lawrence Seaway and even out into the Atlantic. There are two reasons why this story is still popular after well over half a century. Holling's artwork is simple and well detailed, realistic and always a complement to the text. The second reason is that it resonates deep inside, calling up dreams of taking bold voyages to faraway places. Like the boy who carved Paddle-to-the-Sea, my own heart wants to go on that voyage! Please, somebody, "Put me back in the water"!
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Summary: Just a correction to the synopsis
Review: The synopsis seems to say that the young Indian boy travels throughout the Great Lakes. The real wonder of the book is that it is the toy canoe the young boy carves that makes the journey, aided by the gentle helping hands of many, many people throughout the region.
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Summary: Paddle-to-the-Sea is inspirational and unforgetable
Review: This book brings back fond memories of a wonderful childhood growing up in rural Michigan. It was a permanent fixture on the bookshelf in the old Berville school house when I was just a boy in the 60's. There was even a slide show version shown occasionally when the weather was too nasty to play outside.The adventure so inspired my brother and me that we fashioned our own "Paddles" out of our lunch-time milk cartons. We launched them in the late spring snow drifts that filled a drainage ditch. Our imaginations took those little waxed paper cartons to the ends of the earth. Mr. Holling's images invite the young reader to enter this world of the Great Lakes and envelopes like a favorite blanket. I remember gazing at each scene for long periods of time searching for Paddle, who sometimes appears as just a tiny bit of red lost in a world of moving water. Children find this book as riveting today as I did in my youth. I gave a copy to my friend's son a few years ago and he loves it. The way of life on the Great Lakes may have changed significantly since the book was written in 1941, but children's imaginations and sense of adventure have not. This book should be on every school and home bookshelf.
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Summary: I think this book is great because I like all his adventures
Review: This book is great because it tells a little about Native Americans and our class is learning about the Indians who lived on Long Island.
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Summary: I think that Paddle to the sea is an interesting book.
Review: This book was a very adventurous book. We all ready have read 20 chapters and it is adventurous, interseting and a cool book. Paddle goes thru dangerous situatoins, but that's what makes it interesting.
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Summary: IT IS ABOUT A BOY AND HIS DREAM ABOUT THE GREAT LAKES.
Review: THIS BOOK WAS SO-SO. NOT TO GOOD NOT TO BAD. THERE ARE MANY GOOD PARTS AND MANY SAD PARTS. AN EXCAMPLE OF A SAD PART IS THE FOREST FIRE AN EXCAMPLE OF A GOOD PART IS WHEN BILL FIXED PADDLE UP. THERE ARE MANY GOOD VOCBULARY WORD IN THIS BOOK. BY LOOKING IN THE DICHANARY TO SEE WHAT WORDS MEAN. IT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND THE BOOK. SOMETIMES THE PICTURES AND THE BORDER LINE PICTURES HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE BOOK. I RATED THIS BOOK A 7 BECAUSE SOME PARTS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, MOST PARTS I DO. BY: LARA DONATO AGE:9
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