Little Toot

Yesterday marked my reacquaintance with "Little Toot", a story I first read decades ago as a child. It's a wonderful, heartwarming story - complete with colorful illustrations - of a little tugboat long used to frolicking on the river among the other, bigger, oceangoing tugboats, who finds himself p......more

This is written extremely well. The title though 😂......more

Little Toot doesn't like to work. Frolicking along the harbor is way more pleasurable. But then something happens and he learns a valuable lesson about working hard and building a good reputation after messing up. A good, solid classic to read with your children. It is long, 86 pages, so will take ro......more

I read this book to my son at the library today and it was really good. Little Toot has big waters to fill, with this granddad, an old river tug, and his dad, Big Toot. The drawings are really good and it's nice to see an author able to do something so good, in it's own way. Certainly a good story we......more

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