Nathaniel Benchley's Red Fox and His Canoe is one of those timeless works
accepted so well by Little People back when I was first teaching in California and it
continued to be a favorite right to the last days I taught in Oklahoma as Osage
County First Grade gathered on the rug to listen to books read to them.
When I was growing up in South Minneapolis we had Eric Serveraid’s classic Not So Wild A Dream. It is about his canoe trip from Minneapolis to Churchill in Canada. It is a canoeing clasice with the Cree and Objiiwa. In my humble opinion you Red Fox and his canoe story come close To Not So Wild a Dream.
Since I'm from the Midwest, I'm more familiar with birchbark canoes, beautifully crafted from strong flexible wood and paper thin birchbark, making them very light to carry, yet very strong and durable in the water. I understand that dugout canoes were made from huge logs in the Pacific Northwest.
The idea of a bunch of unfriendly animals getting together to fish on a canoe/boat really is fanciful. Hopefully the book has a few life lessons thrown in to make it worthwhile for children to read and look at the pictures.
When I was growing up in South Minneapolis we had Eric Serveraid’s classic Not So Wild A Dream. It is about his canoe trip from Minneapolis to Churchill in Canada. It is a canoeing clasice with the Cree and Objiiwa. In my humble opinion you Red Fox and his canoe story come close To Not So Wild a Dream.
The idea of a bunch of unfriendly animals getting together to fish on a canoe/boat really is fanciful. Hopefully the book has a few life lessons thrown in to make it worthwhile for children to read and look at the pictures.
Ron