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Once frightening, the recording, that is....
Before I learned to read, my Sunday school teacher would play the 78 rpm record derived from the Disney cartoon.As soon as she said we would hear it I would start to cry. Why?
1939 Classic Still Charms Children
"Little Toot" by Hardie Gramatky hit the bookshelves in 1939. It has never left.With art which remind readers of Virginia Burton's "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel," and a story with a message not unlike "The Little Engine That Could" Watty Piper, it is a classic.
A Precious Memory
I had not seen this book for at least 3 decades. When I did see it, I knew I had to have a copy for myself. It was the first book I ever read and it brought back precious memories.
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Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 2-3    4. Fiction    5. General    6. Tugboats    7. Juvenile Fiction / Classics   

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8    2. Children: Babies & Toddlers    3. Fiction    4. General    5. Loch Ness monster    6. Monsters    7. Tugboats   

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A treasure!
I found this out-of-print book at a garage sale and read it to my little boys this afternoon ~~ what a darling little book! I remember reading Little Toot when I was a kid ~~ and this book is a classic!Read more

Subjects:  1. Children: Grades 2-3    2. Fiction    3. Mississippi River    4. Steamboats    5. Tugboats   

Subjects:  1. Children: Babies & Toddlers    2. Fiction    3. Thames River    4. Tugboats   

Subjects:  1. Action & Adventure    2. Action & Adventure - General    3. Children's Books/Baby-Preschool    4. Children: Preschool    5. Juvenile Fiction    6. Sports & Recreation - General    7. Transportation - Boats/Underwater    8. Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / General   

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Great book for responsibility
This is a very neat story about a boat and his father and the trip they take together to Maine to visit some friends.All along the way, Toot's father explains to him that to find his way back, he must remember the landmarks the he sees on the way up.This proves invaluable to Little Toot when he meets his new friend Bob and they go far away from their parents to play on a beach.It gets dark and they both forget how to get back home.However, Toot remembers the landmarks and figures out which way to go to reach their destination.Both get a stern speaking to for not telling their parents where they were going so that someone knew where they were in case they needed help.They learned a great lesson and Toot lead the way home after their visit to Maine by viewing the landmarks.
Achieving significance
Linda Gramatky-Smith extends the Little Toot franchise in this 1999 imprint by Grosset & Dunlap. Instead of simulating her father's work, however, Smith and illustrator Mark Weber shade the character with their own sensibilities. Hardie Gramatky's original Toot illustrations were calligraphic and elastic; an ex-Disney artist, Gramatky's Toot slumped, glided and tugged with great emotional expressiveness. Weber's Toot, on the other hand, is more toy-like and solid; his Toot performs with his face not his body. The storylines also differ. In the original Gramatky book, Little Toot becomes a hero through ingenuity and pluck; he blows smoke signals and then overcomes his small size through sheer determination. Smith's Toot becomes heroic through cognitive facility--he is able to find his way home by remembering landmarks. In the end, both Smith's book and Gramatky's original book play to a child's desire for significance but differ in what it means to achieve it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Action & Adventure    2. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks    3. Children: Preschool    4. Fiction    5. Juvenile Fiction    6. Lost children    7. Social Situations - General    8. Sports & Recreation - General    9. Transportation - Boats/Underwater    10. Tugboats    11. Juvenile Fiction / General   

Subjects:  1. Children: Grades 2-3    2. Fiction    3. San Francisco    4. San Francisco Bay    5. Tugboats   

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Contains violence with guns, swords, and crime by pirates
I was excited to find a book of children's fiction that featured Venice, Italy. The story is mediocre and contains violent scenes--I usually don't read stories with violent content to my children. The original Little Toot book contained no violence.Read more

Subjects:  1. Fiction    2. Tugboats    3. Venice (Italy)   

Subjects:  1. Audio - Children's Classics    2. Audio: Juvenile    3. Classics   

Subjects:  1. Fiction    2. Tugboats   

Subjects:  1. Audio: Juvenile   

Subjects:  1. Action & Adventure    2. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks    3. Children: Preschool    4. Juvenile Fiction    5. Sports & Recreation - General    6. Transportation - Boats/Underwater    7. Juvenile Fiction / General   

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Little Toot
I very like this book because the boat name Little Toot is always by himself, but not afriad of doing anything. Also even thought he is by himself he always find fun things to do, and have funby himself. He also shows to the bigger boats that he could do anything they could do. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Audio: Juvenile