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Paddle-to-the-Sea

A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holling, Holling Clancy
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1969.
Edition:	Reinforced ed.
Subjects:	Caldecott honor book. Great Lakes (North America) > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long, adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.
Item Description:	1942 Caldecott honor book. 1962 Lewis Carroll Shelf award.
Physical Description:	[61] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	0395150825 9780395150825
Author Notes:	Born in Jackson County, Michigan, in 1900, Holling Clancy Holling graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. He then worked in a taxidermy department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and spent time working in anthropology under Dr. Ralph Linton. During this period, he married Lucille Webster and within a year of their marriage accepted a position as art instructor on the first University World Cruise, sponsored by New York University. For many years, Holling C.Holling dedicated much of his time and interest to making books for children. Much of the material he used was known to him first hand, and his wife, Lucille, worked with him on many of the illustrations.