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		Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man by Robert McCloskey $19.99 Hardcover, Illustrated Children's Book ISBN: 9780670197484 Published by The Penguin Group Currently out of stock until October 1.   Also by Robert McCloskey: Blueberries for Sal Make Way for Ducklings One Morning in Maine Time of Wonder

ABOUT THE BOOK
Whenever Burt Dow, who lives in a snug little house on the Maine coast, sets out to sea, his pet giggling gull goes along. But this time, it will take all his might and some plain old ingenuity to save him and the gull from a raging storm.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) wrote and illustrated some of the most honored and enduring children's books ever published, including Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and Homer Price. He was the first artist to win the Caldecott Medal twice, for Make Way for Ducklings in 1942 and Time of Wonder in 1958.

His boyhood was spent in Hamilton, Ohio, and he attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. For most of his adult life, McCloskey lived in Maine, where he and his wife Peggy raised their two daughters, Sally and Jane. In 2000 Robert McCloskey was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.


EXCERPT
“ Burt Dow is an old deep-water man, retired of course, but retired or not he still keeps two boats. One is a dory so old and so leaky that it can no longer be launched. Burt has painted it red and placed it on the little patch of lawn in front of his house, overlooking the bay.

He's rigged it like one of the many ships he's sailed to all the corners of all the seven seas. It's filled to the gun'ls with earth, and every summer Burt plants it with geraniums and Indian peas. The geraniums brighten up the deck, and the Indian peas climb the rigging and sway this-a-way, that-a-way, in a smoky sou'wester. ”