Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.
When Burt drops his baited hook over the side of his boat, the Tidely-Idley, he never dreams that on the other end there will be a whale
It's a big day for a little girl when she discovers her first loose tooth and makes a trip to the grocery store on the mainland.
. ." So begins this classic story of one summer on a Maine island from the author of One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal.
Burt Dow accidentally caught a whale while fishing. When a storm blew up, he caught a ride in the whale's tummy, but then the whale wouldn't spit him out
Young Lentil wants to learn to sing, but no matter how hard he tries he can’t sing on key.
McCloskey wrote and painted what he knew: from his Midwestern childhood to island life in Maine.
Will each mother go home with the right little one? With its expressive line drawings and charming story, Blueberries for Sal has won readers' hearts since its first publication in 1948.
They are unmistakenably alive. Like Mr. McCloskey himself, they are perpetually amused by the everyday hazards and discrepancies around them.
Incongruities such as these were , however , simply artist's tricks of the trade and of no great importance when placed beside the deceptive practices of old - fashioned flimflam artists like the one McCloskey satirized in the " Ever So ...
Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man: A Tale of the Sea in the Classic Traditio