Little Toot on the Mississippi

Little Toot on the Mississippi

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Little Toot finally finds the old steamboats just in time to urge them out of retirement to save the bayou animals from the flooding Mississippi.
Hardcover, 89 pages
Published August 28th 1973 by Putnam Publishing Group (first published August 1973)
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Donna Crane
Little Toot has heard tell of the fire-breathing monsters called steamboats but when he makes the journey to find them, he's disappointed. They haven't been on the Mississippi for years. When the great river goes into flood however, Toot stumbles deep into the bayou and finds the relics mouldering away. He'll need their help if he's going to save all the hapless animals from the rising floodwaters. To support the story of Little Toot, readers are treated to well-rendered visuals--especially memo...more
Dana
This was actually the very first book I ever read as a child. I read it over and over and over again. I loved this book.
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Jun 24, 2012 Pam marked it as to-read
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Little Toot On The Mississippi
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, author, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of America's 20 greatest watercolorists. He wrote and illustrated several children's books, most notably Little Toot.

Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, Texas, the second of three sons born to Bernhard Gramatky and Blanche Gunner Gramatky....more
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