When Caroline Oresteia, seventeen, finally has a chance to be a wherryman, she gets caught in a web of politics and lies, with her father's life at stake.

Bill the tugboat and Mabel the barge are friends happily working together on the Hudson River, and one day when a kitten falls into the water, Bill and Mabel prove that anyone can be a hero.

One brave little boat is on a journey to discover the seven seas. Setting off into the big, wide world, Little Boat runs into treacherous waters, turbulent tides, and seafaring friends. After all his nautical adventures, our hero finds out that he's no longer such a little boat.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text present all kinds of boats--yachts, toy boats, tugs, ferry boats, and more.

While playing with a blue boat in the bathtub, a young girl imagines she is on an ocean voyage.

Daisy ferries to and from the island all day in her water taxi.

"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"--

While on vacation with his family in Venice, Gaspard gets tired of visiting museums, so he takes off by himself for a boating adventure on the canals.

Depicts several kinds of boats and ships.

Captain Small goes sailing, fishes from his boat, goes for an unexpected swim, and braves a storm on the way home.