Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
by Vera B. Williams
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Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe.Tags
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Even though name-brand author and a Reading Rainbow book, this seems lesser-known. My theory? Very few parents want their kids to beg to go on a similar canoe trip! I've enjoyed tent camping, and day-trip canoeing, yet reading about this adventure just exhausts me.
A little girl, her mother, aunt, and small cousin all go on a trip in a conoe for three days. They have all sorts of adventures and do lots of things before returning home. What is really neat about this book is all the little notes and bits of information about the trip you get along the way, and the unconventional format. I remember loving it as a kid, so I was glad to find a copy.
A mom, an aunt, and two cousins take a canoe trip down the river, documennting their experiences as they go. This is written like a travel diary, with matching illustrations and diagrams and explanations.
A mom, an aunt, and two cousins take a canoe trip down the river, documennting their experiences as they go. This is written like a travel diary, with matching illustrations and diagrams and explanations.
Follow the red canoe from page to page as it journeys down river carrying the family on a camping tour. It's the next best thing to paddling it yourself.
This book is about a little girl, her cousin and both of their mothers that go on a camping trip and canoe for three days and sees various things and do many things. This book was a good book because of the pictures that went along with it and all of the different situations they had to face. The grade level would be 1st grade.
Follow the red canoe from page to page as it journeys down river carrying the family on a camping tour. It's the next best thing to paddling it yourself.
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Vera Baker Williams was born on January 28, 1927 in Hollywood, California. She studied at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she received a BFA in graphic arts. She co-found the Gate Hill Cooperative and the Collaberg School, in Stony Point, New York. She worked as a teacher and artist show more before becoming a writer and illustrator of children's books. She won a Caldecott Medal award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book award in the picture book category in 1983 for A Chair for My Mother, a Caldecott Medal award in 1991 for "More More More" Said the Baby: Three Love Stories, the Boston Globe-Horn Book award in fiction in 1994 for Scooter, and the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2009. She was a member of the executive committee of the War Resisters League from 1984 to 1987, and served a month at a federal penitentiary for participating in a women's peaceful blockade of the Pentagon. She died on October 16, 2015 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
- Original publication date
- 1981
- Dedication
- Thanks for rivers and friends, big and small
- First words
- I was the one who first notice the red canoe for sale in a yard on the way home from school.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It seems I can still hear the sound of the river running over the rocks.
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 905
- Popularity
- 29,699
- Reviews
- 10
- Rating
- (4.02)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 4
