Illustrations and simple rhyming text present all kinds of boats--yachts, toy boats, tugs, ferry boats, and more.

A toy boat gets separated from its owner and has an adventure on the high seas.

The adventures of a toy boat sailing on a pond, told with a 43-word preprimer vocabulary.

Small Pig and his friends Old Goat and Turkey spend the day in a rowboat on a lake.

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

When Little Bear can no longer fit into his boat he finds someone else who can use it.

Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

The reader is invited to guess who causes the boat to sink when five animal friends of varying sizes decide to go for a row.

Illustrations and rhyming text introduce an increasing, then decreasing, cast of characters sharing a boat in a moat with a pig in an enormous wig.

"One night, Arthur has an amazing dream about a pink-and-green boat with a striped mast and beautiful figurehead. He tries to tell his family about it when he wakes up, but no one (not even the dog!) is interested. In fact, they don't even notice the boat on his head, growing larger and larger by the minute! Soon, Arthur is bouncing along the waves in his very own dream boat. Maybe now his family will listen to him!"--Dust jacket.