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When big ships get to the harbor, they need me! 'Cause I'm MIGHTY! And I can nudge, bump, butt, shove, ram, push, and pull 'em in. You think this tug's too small to pull in ships twenty times his size? Think again! This guy is 100% MIGHTY!Kate and Jim McMullan's follow-up to the multi-award-winning I Stink! is a raucous tribute to a tireless harbor hero.
Lexile Measure: AD380L (What's this?)
Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1 edition (September 23, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060092904
ISBN-13: 978-0060092900
Product Dimensions: 11 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #402,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #183 in Books > Children's Books > Cars, Trains & Things That Go > Boats & Ships #9092 in Books > Children's Books > Humor #10153 in Books > Children's Books > Action & Adventure
Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 3
I have a Thomas the Tank Engine obsessed 2 1/2 year old, but Mighty the Tug Boat has his ardor when it comes time for bedtime stories. He cheerfully announces "read Mighty!" and thoroughly enjoys the story and the drawings. He traces Mighty's path to the Anchorage, helps me to read the "toot"s and the "vrooms" and the word "tug", and he even is starting to recognize the large-facetype of AARRRUUUGGGGAAAA! (which means "Thank you" in boat). I get to use a silly voice when reading this book, which is fun for me. The typeface and font size and color changes, to give you an idea of what is loud and what is soft, which I haven't seen very much of in children's books. I think it is probably helping with his pre-reading skills (even though I'm mainly focused on just having a fun time reading stories together). I highly recommend this book for the preschool set, especially the ones who like vehicles with facial expressions!
The combination of text style, the story and illustration is fantastic. At the beginning, there is a map of docks and anchorage where big ships are waiting for the tugboat. Then there are illustrations/story about three different tug jobs. We go back and forth to find what route the tugboat took to tug each ship and where each ship ends up. My son is already looking out for the other books by this author-illustrator pair:). We bought a used book and it arrived as good as new:).
My son loves ships, trucks, trains etc (he's two), however, he does not like this book. I think the illustrations are too strong for him, they have a sense of strength almost violence about them and I think it disturbs him (even if he doesn't like the story, he usually likes the pictures in a book).
A delightful, humorous presentation of what a tug boat does and how it does it. Itâs complete with a many sounds that the very young listener will enjoy making along with studying the giant illustrations that fill each page.I bet no one gets by with reading this just once to little tykes before they let you close the book and go on to another.-Hope Irvin Marston, author of SACKETS HARBOR POWDER MONKEY - THE WAR OF 1812
I first received "I Stink" from a friend since my 4 yr. old wants to someday be a garbage man! We then moved onto "I'm Dirty". He loves them both. We just bought this book for his Easter basket, and after reading it myself I'm sure it will be another hit! I brought all three books to my college class (a room full of soon-to-be teachers) and they also loved these books. We all agreed that the font is so much fun, there are great words for beginning readers to read, the story is told in a fun way, AND it teaches children about different types of vehicles. The writing is clever and funny...and there are plenty of opportunities to show children how big font means big voices...my son loves to yell out certain parts that he's memorized. And while these books were bought for my son, my daughter also loves them!
I checked this book out of the library over the summer and my son loved it so much that he continued to ask to read it even after we had to return it to the library so I decided to get it for him for Christmas. He was so excited when he saw it Christmas morning that rather than play with his toys he wanted to read "I'm Mighty" (as well as the other books from this series... "I'm Dirty" and "I Stink"). It's been over a month since Christmas and he still wants to read it at least once a day! It's a great book and the fact that it makes him want to read makes me love it all the more! I definitely recommend it!
From age 1 to now (just over two years) my son has been obsessed with "I Stink!" from the McMullans (he even surprised us one day by reciting all of the alphabet "stinky" items from the book!). We bought "I'm Dirty"... same thing. "I'm Mighty" is no exception - we read it every night without fail (at least once). I now buy these books for gifts for toddler friends - they are easy to read, entertaining, and they just love them! Mommy and daddy love them too - thanks for another great book (we'll wait for more)!
Compared to the classic "trash talk" from the garbage truck in "I Stink", this tugboat doesn't have show nearly as much personality--he likes to brag about how big and heavy the barges he tows are, and that's pretty much it. This is still a lot of fun, though; the illustrations are terrific, and it's very good for explaining to a young child just what a tugboat is, and and what it does.
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