'The door of the boatshed creaked slowly open and a young boy peered inside. His face lit up in wonder as he looked around.When Tom Stevenson meets the Captain he enters and extraordinary world of blisters and barnacles, pirates and gun-runners, shipwrecks and sea creatures. Working side by side to slowly restore an old steam boat, their friendship grows and strengthens.' (Publication summary)
This is affiliated with Dr Laurel Cohn's Picture Book Diet because it contains representations of food and/or food practices.
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| Signage | n/a |
| Positive/negative value | n/a |
| Food as sense of place | n/a |
| Setting | n/a |
| Food as social cohesion | n/a |
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| Food as character identity | n/a |
| Food as language | n/a |
