Provides a comprehensive list of safety considerations to help the viewer avoid a boating accident. Subjects covered include: personal flotation devices, EPIRB's, fire prevention, life rafts, weather considerations, fuel system safety, radar use, first aid, emergencies at sea, boat handling, VHF radio procedures, trailering safety tips, low visibility tips, and distress signals.

Retelling of traditional song, with additional verses showing other places to row a boat.

Illustrations and simple text provide reassurance that a boy and those who care for him will be kept safe, no matter what.

Afraid to face their mother after breaking her beautiful blue seashell, three bears set out on an high seas adventure to try to find a replacement.

A riverboat captain takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life.

Nick and his robot pal Nack love to build things. As they make boats in this Level 1 Highlights Puzzle Reader, kids can find supplies in Hidden Pictures scenes. These puzzles double as picture support for the simple story text, which is full of repeated words. With bonus craft directions, Nick and Nack Float a Boat will appeal to junior makers who are just discovering reading.

"Bert Loper was born in 1869 the very day that Major John Wesley Powell discovered the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. Loper spent much of his life devoted to those two streams. But it was never easy. Orphaned and abused, Loper worked most of his life at the very bottom, the nameless grunt in hard rock mines, the sore-backed shoveler on a placer bar, the subsistence rancher on a lonely gravel delta in Glen Canyon. Whatever Loper got,...