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Description
Follow a busy tugboat as it goes about its important work on the water. Through simple text and colorful pictures, young readers learn how this powerful little boat helps guide and push larger ships safely through the harbor. The book takes readers through a full day of the tugboat's jobs, giving children an introduction to how these mighty machines work.
Quick Summary
If your kid is obsessed with boats, trucks, or anything that moves, this little book about a tugboat's workday is a great find. Angela Royston keeps things simple while still teaching real stuff like how tugboats spend their day helping massive ships navigate into port, pushing and pulling where the big vessels can't go alone. At only 800 words it's a quick read, but the AR level of 4.2 means the vocabulary and concepts are a step up from typical kindergarten reading, making it perfect for early readers who want something more substantial than basic picture books. The "On The Move" series has this way of making working vehicles feel important and a little heroic, which kids eat up. Parents will appreciate that it's purely informational with no scary parts just solid, age-appropriate facts presented through clean illustrations that support the text without overwhelming it. It's the kind of book that works equally well for a classroom read-aloud about community helpers or for a kid who just wants to learn what that little boat doing circles around the cargo ships actually does all day.