![]() ![]() There it is retrieved for the last time in the nets of a French trawler on the Grand Banks, and is taken to France. Finally after four years it arrives off Newfoundland at the Atlantic Ocean. It traverses all five Great Lakes (including going over Niagara Falls) and the St. As the canoe travels, those who send it on its way scratch their locations on the metal plate. At one point, a man finds the inscription very worn and adds a metal plate bearing similar words. It is picked up several more times, but the inscription is always obeyed. ![]() It travels the Nipigon River wedged in a log of wood, and is rescued by a French-Canadian lumberjack just as it is going under the saw. The story follows the progress of the little wooden canoe and paddler on their journey. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea" and sets it free to travel the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. On its side he roughly carves the words "Please put me back in the water. Plot Īt Lake Nipigon, Ontario, a First Nation boy carves a wooden model of an “Indian” in a canoe. Ī water park based on the book was opened in 2016 in the town of Nipigon, where the fictional journey begins. The film Paddle to the Sea, based on this book but omitting many details, was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1966, directed by Bill Mason. It was recognized as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. ![]() ![]() Holling and published by Houghton Mifflin. Paddle-to-the-Sea is a 1941 children's book, written and illustrated by American author/artist Holling C. ![]()
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