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A Full Hand
by (Illustrator: Thomas F. Yezerski)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2002-09-18)
ISBN: 0374425027
EAN: 9780374425029
Hardcover: 32 pages
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
SKU: 0711240197
Condition: New
Comments: New Book, could have some mild shelf or packing wear
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A boy's initiation into old-time canal transport
Asa doesn't know what to expect when his mother tells him it's time he made his first full hand. After all, he's only nine years old. But his father needs some help. He carries coal on his boat along the canal all the way across New Jersey, and he needs Asa to drive the two mules who pull the boat. While leading the mules along their route, Asa learns about loading at the coal chutes and the mechanisms of locks, aqueducts, and inclined planes. Finally, when a violent storm threatens the mission, Asa finds out what it really means to make a full hand.
Set against a backdrop of luminous illustrations, fascinating information about old-time canal freighting is seamlessly woven into this warm and exciting father-and-son story.
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Customer Reviews
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Local history combines with a wonderful story
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-07-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
So much can be learned from this book. Obviously, a child can learn about the importance and mechanisms of canals. Additionally, there is an excellent foray into the relationship between father and son when the working world often began before the teenage years, but most importantly this book teaches us, and our children, to search our own local surroundings to learn about the history, and the people, that created it.
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