Sarah's Boat: A Young Girl Learns the Art of Sailing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884481182 ISBN 13: 9780884481188

Publisher: Tilbury House Pub, 2003

Synopsis

An eleven-year-old girl demonstrates her sailing skills during a Labor Day weekend race.

About this title

From Booklist:

Gr. 3-6. The line between fiction and nonfiction is blurred in this story about Sarah, who is taught to sail by her grandfather and perfects her skills enough to leap from a Puddleduck to a Bluejay sloop. With her grandfather, she sands, varnishes, and paints the Bluejay and then practices learning the ropes of the bigger boat. She enters the Labor Day race and beats several boys who have taken her for granted. This book is peculiar because the plot is predictable and the characters somewhat stereotyped, yet the sailing information, glossary, and drawings are exceptionally good. Readers of fiction may be turned off by the picture-book format, but young sailors will peruse this volume with interest. Color and black pencil sketches accompany the text, but it is the precise sailing drawings that will catch the eye. Recommended for would-be sailors. Deborah Abbott

About this edition

• Publisher: Tilbury House Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0884481182
• ISBN 13: 9780884481188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Alvord Douglas