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Little toot board book Board book - 1993

by Gramatky, Hardie

  • Used
  • very good

At last, the beloved story of the little tugboat who proves himself a hero when he single-handedly rescues a stranded ocean liner is adapted in a die-cut board book that's perfect for babies. Faithfully retold, illustrated with ultra-appealing artwork, and die-cut into a tugboat's shape on durable board pages. Full color.

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Details

  • Title Little toot board book
  • Author Gramatky, Hardie
  • Binding Board book
  • Edition Brdbk
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 12
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grosset & Dunlap, New York
  • Date April 21, 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 000005426
  • ISBN 9780448405858 / 0448405857
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.86 x 7.96 x 0.35 in (17.42 x 20.22 x 0.89 cm)
  • Ages 00 to 03 years
  • Grade levels P - P
  • Reading level 630
  • Library of Congress subjects Tugboats - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92072265
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

From the publisher

Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, TX, in 1907 but moved to California as a small boy after his father died of tuberculosis. He attended Stanford University (earning the tuition by working as a logger and a bank teller) and Chouinard Art Institute before becoming one of Disney’s early animators in 1929. In the 1920s and 30s, he helped start the California Watercolor movement. In 1936, after a 6-year Disney contract expired, he left the company (earning $150 a week, a huge sum in the Depression) to move to New York City with his wife, artist Dorothea Cooke, to become illustrators. It was there, in his studio on Pearl Street, that Gramatky saw a Moran tugboat out his window that obviously didn’t want to work and kept making figure 8s on the East River. So in 1939 after painting many watercolors of the busy harbor, Gramatky wondered what would happen if a “tug didn’t want to tug” and wrote the story. The book got immediate attention and has been a favorite picture book ever since, and Gramatky’s fine art watercolors and giclée prints continue to be prized. He died of cancer of the ileum in Westport, Connecticut, on April 29, 1979.

First line

At the foot of an old wharf lived Little Toot, the cutest tugboat you ever saw.

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/1993, Page 0

About the author

Hardie Gramatky was born in Dallas, TX, in 1907 but moved to California as a small boy after his father died of tuberculosis. He attended Stanford University (earning the tuition by working as a logger and a bank teller) and Chouinard Art Institute before becoming one of Disney's early animators in 1929. In the 1920s and `30s, he helped start the California Watercolor movement. In 1936, after a 6-year Disney contract expired, he left the company (earning $150 a week, a huge sum in the Depression) to move to New York City with his wife, artist Dorothea Cooke, to become illustrators. It was there, in his studio on Pearl Street, that Gramatky saw a Moran tugboat out his window that obviously didn't want to work and kept making figure 8s on the East River. So in 1939 after painting many watercolors of the busy harbor, Gramatky wondered what would happen if a "tug didn't want to tug" and wrote the story. The book got immediate attention and has been a favorite picture book ever since, and Gramatky's fine art watercolors and gicle prints continue to be prized. He died of cancer of the ileum in Westport, Connecticut, on April 29, 1979.