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The film Paddle to the Sea, based on this book but omitting many details, was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1966, directed by Bill Mason. It was nominated for an Oscar. [2] A water park based on the book was opened in 2016 in the town of Nipigon, where the fictional journey begins. [3]
Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy, August 2, 1900 – September 7, 1973) was an American writer and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to ...
Paddle to the Sea (French: Vogue-à-la-mer) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason.It is based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C. Holling, and follows the adventures of a child's hand-carved toy Indian in a canoe as it makes its way from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Saint ...
Bella's Tree (2009), a book written by Janet Russell, with illustrations by Jirina Marton; The Blythes Are Quoted (2009), a book completed by L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) near the end of her life but not published in its entirety until 2009; The Boy & the Bindi (2016), a picture book by Vivek Shraya and illustrated by Rajni Perera
Four Kids and It; Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner; Freaky Friday (1995 film) Friend or Foe (film) Frode og alle de andre rødder; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973 film) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1995 film) From Time to Time (film) Fuchsia the Mini-Witch
Bill Mason in a canoe.. In his review of James Raffan's 1996 biography of Mason, Michael Peake refers to Mason as "the patron saint of canoeing." To many Canadian and American paddlers and canoeists growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, his series of instructional films were the introduction to technique and the canoeing experience.
Minn of the Mississippi is one of a series of children's travel and nature-themed books that Holling wrote in collaboration with his wife, artist and designer Lucille Webster Holling. [2] Holling's original publisher, Houghton Mifflin , advertised the group of five books, which also included Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941), Tree in the Trail (1942 ...
Don Starkell (December 7, 1932 – January 28, 2012) was a Canadian adventurer, diarist and author, perhaps best known for his achievements in canoeing. [1]Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he had a difficult childhood including an abusive father, four and a half years in an orphanage, and later with a foster family in North Kildonan.