The only book I remember from elementary school.

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	• Paddle-to-the-Sea (Sandpiper Books) Holling C. Holling Sandpiper, 1980 - 64 pages average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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A book that lives in one's memory

Like another of your reviewers, it has been fifty years since I was given this book as a gift. I'm purchasing it now as a gift for my granddaughter. The story has remained with me all these years as a tale of dreams fulfilled and goals reached. Add to this a sensitive understanding of the wish to see what lies beyond the next horizon and you have a story bound to appeal to any child. Perhaps it will help my granddaughter understand somehting of what motivates her Grandma to travel the world as much as she can and to want always to learn just a little bit more. And it is my fondest wish that it will encourage in her a bit of that same curiosity and enthusiasm. It is a lovely book. Besides all of the above it taught me some geography - since I lived nowhere near the area it told about and followed Paddle's travels on the illustrations - and something of a way of life unfamiliar to me.

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The only book I remember from elementary school.

I grew up in rural southern West Virginia in a town that borders the New River. The river always fascinated me, and where it could take me or a homemade boat fascinated me all the more, When I read this book in second grade, it lit an unimaginable sense of adventure in me and led me to carve my own boat and drop it in the river. That was in 1967. I never got a response from anyone if it was ever found, but to this day I still hope to come home from my overseas journeys and find a letter from someone who found my childhood homage to "Paddle to the Sea". I am buying this book now for my first child, Grace, in hopes that she finds it as thrilling an adventure as I did

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The most important book I ever read!

When I was 8, this book captured my imagination and provided me with my first understanding of what reading was all about. Nothing prior to this story provided me with the warm feeling of discovery, the delicious sense of adventure and the pressing desire to see what was next. The pictures add much to the enjoyment. Fifty-two years later, I still remember that epic journey

Read to me in third-grade and never forgotten.

Read to me in 1966, this wonderful little story has stayed with me for 31 years. Particularly meaningful, growing up on a Great Lake that I would leave that year, the saga of the carved canoe, its storm-tossed occupant, and a journey of (then) unimaginable distance had great power then - and now. I've often reflected on the little canoe in the course of my own travels. This is book to share with every child who dreams about whats beyond the horizon. My thanks to the author. Sean

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The best book I read

I just started reading this book a few weeks ago. It is fasinating to read about the adventures of a little wooden man on his journey to the sea.I hope other people who are reading this book will enjoy it as much as I am.

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