Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-ocean"
"William and Boomer", "Lightship" and "My Father's Boat"
This week was a water week.
William and Boomer
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Lindsay Barrett George
William and his father find a baby goose. No adults are anywhere around so they adopt Boomer. Over the summer Boomer and William grow, each learning new skills, becoming good friends.
The text is mostly about William. The excellent illustrations show how Boomer grows and matures over the summer.
It left me wondering what happened to Boomer and William at the end of the summer.
Lightship
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Brian Floca
Lighthouses are well known as the way to mark dangerous places in ship channels. There are places where no lighthouse can be built, but the area still needs to be marked. This is what a lightship did.
This is a nonfiction book with detailed diagrams of a lightship and lots of information about what they were and what they did.
The text is simple and the crew illustrations good, colored line drawings.
My Father's Boat
4 stars
Author: Sherry Garland
Illustrator: Ted Rand
At the close of the Vietnam War, many Vietnamese came to the U.S. Some of these people were fishermen and settled near the Gulf to work as fishermen.
This is about a son who is now learning to be a fisherman from his father who learned from his father who is still in Vietnam. All through is the wish the three generations could someday all go fishing together.
William and Boomer
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Lindsay Barrett George
William and his father find a baby goose. No adults are anywhere around so they adopt Boomer. Over the summer Boomer and William grow, each learning new skills, becoming good friends.
The text is mostly about William. The excellent illustrations show how Boomer grows and matures over the summer.
It left me wondering what happened to Boomer and William at the end of the summer.
Lightship
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: Brian Floca
Lighthouses are well known as the way to mark dangerous places in ship channels. There are places where no lighthouse can be built, but the area still needs to be marked. This is what a lightship did.
This is a nonfiction book with detailed diagrams of a lightship and lots of information about what they were and what they did.
The text is simple and the crew illustrations good, colored line drawings.
My Father's Boat
4 stars
Author: Sherry Garland
Illustrator: Ted Rand
At the close of the Vietnam War, many Vietnamese came to the U.S. Some of these people were fishermen and settled near the Gulf to work as fishermen.
This is about a son who is now learning to be a fisherman from his father who learned from his father who is still in Vietnam. All through is the wish the three generations could someday all go fishing together.
