The Cardboard Boat Book

The Cardboard Boat Book

Author:

Publisher: Dave Friant

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1439224951

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A step-by-step instruction manual on how to build a lightweight 'environmentally-friendly' boat with recyclable resources. The boats simply fold up from ¼” thick cardboard obtaining their strength from the geometry of the component parts. The boats are 8-feet long, weigh about 25-pounds, and can accommodate a 250-pound person without risking structural damage. Each boat is constructed with 21-pieces of cardboard that are used to make 7-component parts. The 7 parts are assembled together with 'environmentally-friendly' contact cement and paper drywall tape. Once assembled the boats are sealed with an 'environmentally-friendly' water-based waterproof coating. No special tools are required and they are very simple to build. All of the materials used to build a boat are typically found at 'do-it-yourself' home improvement stores. The boats can be outfitted with 12-volt electric fishing motors, although they are typically propelled with traditional Kayak style paddles.


Boats and Boating on Cranberry Lake

Boats and Boating on Cranberry Lake

Author: Allen P. Splete

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738565200

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Boats and Boating on Cranberry Lake portrays the evolution of boating life on a lake that was barely known until the late 19th century. Illustrated here are some of the lake's earliest guide boats and canoes, workboats and steamers, and early motor launches that brought visitors from the dock at Wanakena to hotels around the lake. In the summer of 1909, a few men who regularly spent the season on Cranberry Lake organized a motorboat club to promote the sport of power boating, improve boating conditions on the lake, and have some fun. Today the Cranberry Lake Boat Club, with 400 memberships, is thought to be the oldest such continuously active club in the western Adirondacks. The club will celebrate its centennial in 2009 with a summer of activities related to boats and boating on the lake.


Cork Boat

Cork Boat

Author: John Pollack

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2004-01-06

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0375423095

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165,321 corks 1 boat Most people have childhood dreams; few ever pursue them. At the age of 34, John Pollack quit a prestigious speechwriting job on Capitol Hill to pursue an idea he had harbored since the age of six: to build a boat out of wine corks and take it on an epic journey. In Cork Boat, Pollack tells the charming and uplifting story of this unlikely adventure. Overcoming one obstacle after another, he convinces skeptical bartenders to save corks, corrals a brilliant but disorganized partner, and cajoles more than a hundred volunteers to help build the boat, many until their fingers bleed. Hired as a speechwriter for President Clinton midway through construction, Pollack soon has the White House saving corks, too. Ultimately, he and his crew set sail down the Douro River in Portugal, where the boat becomes a national sensation. Written with unusual grace and disarming humor, Cork Boat is a buoyant tale of camaraderie, determination, and the power of imagination.


What to Do with a Box

What to Do with a Box

Author: Jane Yolen

Publisher: The Creative Company

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 1566607027

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Jane Yolen poetically reminds young readers that a simple box can be a child's most imaginative plaything as artist Chris Sheban illustrates its myriad and magical uses. Reviews -Booklist, November 2021 “A Box! A box is a wonder indeed. The only such magic that you’ll ever need.” This book offers gentle suggestions for what to do with a cardboard box, from the practical to the fantastical and from solitary to social.”


The Free Brontosaurus

The Free Brontosaurus

Author: David Berkeley

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781940207988

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The Free Brontosaurus is a novella comprising ten interweaving stories, complete with an accompanying album of ten songs. All set in the same fictional city, at the same moment in time, minor characters in one story are major characters in another. It is a bit likeOlive Kitteridge, if reimagined by Miranda July. These are gently written narratives of isolation, describing characters disconnected from home and community. The book is full of dark humor, sadness, and glimmers of joy. Ultimately, the characters' abilities to find beauty in the bizarre connect and redeem them, offering the characters (and us) hope. The book is only half of this project, though, for it also comes with a soundtrack, one song per story, written loosely from the perspective of the main character from each tale. Both the book and the album can stand alone. However, when the two are appreciated together, an unusually moving and multilayered world is born, likely to break and heal the heart.


Richard Scarry's Boats

Richard Scarry's Boats

Author: Richard Scarry

Publisher: Golden Books

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 0385392699

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Hit the high seas with this board book featuring Richard Scarry's fast and fun boats! From motorboats and sailboats, to submarines and kayaks, little sailors will be eager to cruise through these adventurous pages!


Boats for Papa

Boats for Papa

Author: Jessixa Bagley

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 1626720398

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Buckley and his mother cope with the loss of their father/husband by sending small wooden boats, built by Buckley, off into the ocean.


Tickety Toc: Pirate Time

Tickety Toc: Pirate Time

Author: Anna Holmes

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2014-04-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780545614757

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Tommy and Tallulah build a pirate ship and are in search of treasure, but Hopparoo has a sneaky plan to find the treasure first.


Cardboard Creations

Cardboard Creations

Author: Barbara Rucci

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943147601

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Provides instructions for creating art projects using recycled materials, such as cardboard boxes and old jars and containers.