![]() ![]() At the last moment, a sawmill worker sees the canoe and rescues it from the saw. The log is guided to a massive saw which almost cuts the canoe in half. The tiny boat is wedged in a log that is lifted onto a belt at a lumber mill. Hundreds of logs are floating nearby and they all come to a massive log jam. The spring melt soon happens and the pair are launched on their adventure.Ĭrashing down into the river the little canoe bobs along as it is swept downstream. On the bottom of the craft he writes: “I Am Paddle to the Sea, Please Put Me Back in Water.” He tells them to go through the five Great Lakes to the sea. He takes the foot-long canoe with its fearless paddler and places them on a snowy hill above a frozen river. In this beautifully written and illustrated story, a Native Canadian child carves a canoe with a tribal voyageur. Holling Clancy Holling has written a classic in children’s literature about the Great Lakes. While Lake Superior, with its wolf head shape is the largest lake and carrot shaped Lake Ontario is the smallest, all of the Great Lakes have their special attraction. From lumbering to shipping, to vacationing and fishing, these marvelous lakes have long held people’s fascination. Bordering both the United States and Canada, the Great Lakes are both aesthetically beautiful and commercially valuable. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1941, 64 pages, Grades 4-5.įive great bodies of water comprise the Great Lakes. ![]() ![]() “Paddle to the Sea” by Holling Clancy Holling ![]()
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