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Description
A timeless picture book from the creator of the Red Truck and Friends series about a ship stuck in a canal and the moon that set it free.
The silver moon sails through the vast blue sky as a cargo ship down below is stuck in a canal. The tugboat tugs until the line goes taut. The diggers scoop up enough sand for a castle. The dredger glugs all the silt he can. But it's no use. For seven long days, the moon watches as the ship stays put, becoming fuller, brighter, closer, until she's finally strong enough to pull the ocean into a mighty tide and save the ship.
A dynamic rescue tale laced with an age-appropriate science lesson.
Publishers Weekly
When strong winds cause a cargo ship to get stuck sideways in a canal, neither protagonist Tug nor hardworking dredgers and diggers can get her free. But the silver moon's "dance with the earth and the sun raised the tides that help ships," and her orbit eventually moves her into a position where she's "the fullest and closest and strongest she could possibly be," Hamilton writes. Now a supermoon, "she pulled the sea up in a mighty tide. A KING TIDE!" that propels the cargo ship out of the sand. Gott's digitally rendered illustrations present a fully anthropomorphized toylike world: puffy-cheeked clouds create the wind, the poor cargo ship sheds anxious tears ("Ships float. That's what we're supposed to do"), and the moon is concerned but confident--the very picture of a benevolent force. An afterword explains the science behind the story. Ages 3-7. (July)
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Kersten Hamilton is a critically acclaimed author of books for toddlers, teens, and all people in between. Her fast-paced stories are loved by readers around the world. She is the author of Red Truck (illustrated by Valeria Petrone), which received a starred review from Booklist and has sold almost a quarter million copies. The Red Truck and Friends series now includes Yellow Copter, Blue Boat, Green Tractor, Orange Excavator, and Merry Christmas, Red Truck!
Kersten is also the author of First Friend: How Dogs Evolved from Wolves to Become Our Best Friends, the Gadgets and Gears middle grade series, and the Goblin Wars YA trilogy. Drawing from her own experience on the autism spectrum, she created her first neurodivergent protagonist in Lilibet Makes a Friend. Kersten has worked as a ranch hand, a wood cutter, a lumberjack, a census taker, and an archeological surveyor. She currently lives in New Mexico, where she hunts dinosaurs in the Ojito Wilderness when not writing.
