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Pete Puffin’s Wild Ride
Cruising Alaska's Currents
- By Libby Hatton -
Beautifully Illustrated
ISBN: 0930931920
Publisher: Alaska Geographic Association London, UK
Published: 2008
Binding: SOFTcover 32 pages
Condition: UNread & displayed condition! HERE in MELBOURNE! A retired display
copy as illustrated!
Edition: FIRST EDITION: 1st printing complete number line
TIGHT, SCARCE SOFTCOVER ~ IN MELBOURNE ...
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Remains UNread - it was the display copy instore . It is Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks within. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A nicely preserved copy - superb!
No discernible shelf wear, the interior is tight and spotlessly clean with 32 pages. THIS copy is the FIRST EDITION: Only printing from 2008 - the US publishing by Alaska Geographic Association.
There are many beautiful illustrations by Libby Hatton.
SCARCE SOFTcover title - this is an UNread copy!!
In original larger pictorial SOFTcover binding, in publisher's glossy covers which are in excellent condition.
(Stored with 2020!)
Measures approx. 11 x 9inches or 28 x 25¼cm
SYNOPSIS ....
A boy's beloved wooden toy, Pete Puffin, is lost overboard while on an Alaskan cruise, and as Pete drifts through oceans learning about currents, storms, and sea creatures, the boy, Eddie, sends postcards to his grandfather, who made Pete, and wonders what happened to his toy. Includes facts about the 1992 incident on which the story is based.
When Eddie's favorite wooden toy is lost overboard during a cruise in Alaska, Eddy learns about where the ocean currents could have taken his wooden puffin.
About the Illustrator
Illustrator Libby Hatton of Anchorage is an experienced hiker and outdoorswoman who also enjoys painting Alaska. As a pediatrician, Hatton has cared for many of Alaska's children for over 30 years.
About the making of this book ....
Libby could see the small horned puffin slipping out of Eddy’s hand, and falling, tumbling, plummeting into the sea, lost from sight in the cruise ship’s wake. Eddy’s stricken face, his cry for Pete, haunted her waking hours. His quest for finding his lost wooden toy troubled her.
She put down her paint brush, and wiped a strand of hair out of her eyes. She needed help if she wasn’t to lose Pete in Alaska’s wild, stormy seas forever. She prided herself on the thoroughness of her research into the turbulent North Pacific currents, and read about the 28,800 yellow duckies, blue turtles, green frogs and red beavers that were washed overboard from a freighter and rode those currents from 1992 to 2003 and are still out there. She knew oceanographers studied these “drifters” to predict the fate of ocean debris.
But where would Pete wind up? How long before she could reunite Pete and Eddy, and where? And how could she tell about Pete’s adventures while sharing Eddy’s frantic search for his lost friend, and still weave in the science of currents and tides, gyres and oscillations? She wanted to depict the perils Pete would face – pollution, plastic debris, disappearing sea ice, climate change – in ways that parents and children would read and re-read.
Libby picked up the phone and called her editor. “We need to talk.” The editorial and design team gathered around Libby’s watercolors. Storms at sea. Pete caught in a crabber’s nets. Words on tissue paper lay scattered over the art. Several hours and multiple cups of coffee later, a subplot took shape – in the form of postcards from Eddy to his grandfather, who’d carved Pete out of a block of wood years before. The reader would turn over postcards glued into the book, following along as Eddy wrote to Gramps about what he learned from maps, books, and the internet to find out Pete’s fate. “Gramps, The captain said there are big rivers in the sea and that Pete could sail on them to Japan or Russia or Greenland. Love, Eddy.” As Eddy searched, his interest in marine science grew.
It was time to call in the oceanographers for counsel. Fortunately, Alaska’s a small town, and the editor knew the work of Tom and Phyllis, two leading scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, who worked with the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS). Called the “eyes on Alaska’s coasts and oceans,” the Alaska Ocean Observing System is a consortium of organizations monitoring remote northern seas and sharing real-time data with shippers, fishermen, industry, cruise lines, search-and-rescue teams and others venturing out into these dangerous waters. The scientists loved the story, sending Libby suggestions for making the text and paintings more accurate. Soon the book took its own journey across the seas to come to life as ink on a page. And AOOS joined with the publisher to place a book in every school and library in Alaska to make sure young Alaskans knew about the currents that carried nutrients and a tiny wooden puffin along their shores.
Did Pete ever make it back to Eddy? What adventures befell this carved puffin far from home?
Very Entertaining read!
Reviews
Beautiful BOOK – Let the imagination expand .. A wonderful adventure for little ones to savour!
GREAT story line - Liked by elementary school … The book has a great story line that is well liked by elementary school children. It contains lift areas, however, that are easy to tear and do not hold up well with multiple students using the book. It is great for a read aloud or for family use, with teaching children to be careful with lift areas.
Painless understanding of the ocean’s currents …. In 1992 beachcombers along the coast of Alaska were startled to find new bathtub toys dotting the beach. That made for amusing stories about bathers and rubber duckies. After it was discovered beaches in Russia's Far East, Canada, and Washington State were also new homes for the toys, at least one scientist had a great idea. The toys were from a container lost overboard from a freighter during a storm. The location of these could help with the study of ocean currents, always of interest. An appeal went out for finders to report their goodies, and many did so. After twelve years, in 2003, one was found off the coast of Maine.
All that said, the author decided to write a book for 5-to-7-year-olds that would explain something about these ocean currents. So Pete Puffin, the wooden toy carried to Alaska for a cruise by his young owner, falls overboard and after a series of adventures (interesting but not too scary) winds up back home in Maine. Hatton also had a brilliant idea. Detachable postcards with appropriate messages decorate most pages. the colors are bright, the chain of life from algae to puffins and beyond is clear but most attractive, and Pete's map of his adventures easy to follow.
Overall, this book is a clear winner. The grown-ups in the house might want to read this aloud, thus happily concealing the fact they're learning a great deal about ocean currents and creatures of the northern seas while instructing the children.
Marvellous Reading!
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