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Shanty Boat
By Temple, Charles A. & Hall, Melanie W.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39566-163-5
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1994.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1994
K-Gr 3 The carefree life of a Mississippi boatman is remembered in this foot-stomping ballad. Flouting a conventional life of farming and never marrying ("'Cause the women see him coming gonna run for their life"), Uncle Sheb was content "Goin' down, down, ever downstream." Although folks got a chuckle out of his shabby shanty boat, the simple pleasures of life on the river made Sheb a happy man. He had time to savor a c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
