"Thao Lam's family came to Canada as refugees during the Vietnam War. When Thao started thinking about how to tell this story, she couldn't stop thinking about ants: small, seemingly insignificant creatures who are able to travel amazingly long distances overwater, work hard, and thrive on almost every continent on the planet. Boat People starts with a story inspired by Thao's mother's life: a young girl watches as a bowl of sugar water is put out...

Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more animal riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.

There are bunnies in a boat, and they're causing a maelstrom in Sunny Bay! The Sunny Town creatures are all out to play in the surf and sand when, whoosh, there goes a speedboat full of bunnies. Watch them crash into a sandcastle, whisk the sails off boats, zip their way to the airport, and run for the plane's cockpit ... oh no!

"By inflating the balloon at the back of their balloon boats, JJ and his siblings give their nautical toys propulsion power to race across the pool. Whose vessel will emerge victorious?"--

"A metaphorical journey about having courage and taking risks, weathering the tides and storms of life's challenges, and discovering new possibilities for one's future"--

A little girl's wish to sail for a day on a boat named for her "with someone nice for company" comes true.

"A picture book about a girl who spends the summer with her family at a lake and learns to become more self-reliant."--

After much disagreement, the blended family of Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox learns that teamwork is needed to make the fastest boat.

Illustrations and rhyming text reveal what sailboats, cruise ships, canoes, and other vessels do to get ready for bed after a hard day's work.

The reader is invited to guess who causes the boat to sink when five animal friends of varying sizes decide to go for a row.