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Cotten, Cynthia

The Book Boat's In

32 pp. | Holiday | January, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-2521-1 $16.95
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Lessac Frané. When Jesse discovers his favorite book, The Swiss Family Robinson, on the "Book Boat" (one of the rental library/bookstores that cruised the Erie Canal in the early 1800s), he sets out to earn its price: twenty cents. The way this small drama looms large works well to illuminate the historical setting, which is also nicely evoked in vivid gouache paintings.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2013

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