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One-Dog Canoe

Read About the Book

One-Dog Canoe /by Mary Casanova ;illus. by Ard Hoyt. New York: Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.

Read Aloud, Read Along

For Teachers and Librarians

Casanova, Mary. The Hunter; a Chinese Folktale. illus. by Ed Young. Atheneum, 2000. RL 3.0

This ancient folktale of China, retold by Mary Casanova and illustrated by Caldecott Award winning illustrator Ed Young, recounts the tale of a hunter who sacrifices himself to save his village. A tale for discussion.

Cumulative Tales

Using Venn diagrams to compare some similar cumulative tales.

The Mitten	The Elf's Hat
The House that Jack Built	The Cake that Mack Ate
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly	I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
The Twelve Days of Christmas	The Twelve Days of Kindergarten
Old Woman and Her Pig	Aunt Pitty-Patty's Piggy
One Dog Canoe	There's Always Room for One More (Schubert)

Plenty of cumulative rhymes and tales are available for comparison. These are just a few of them.

Read About the Author & Illustrator

AUTHOR: Mary Casanova

Mary Casanova

Photograph used with permission of the author.

Photograph used for educational purposes only.

ILLUSTRATOR: Ard Hoyt

Ard Hoyt and his dog Lickerish. Mr. Hoyt lives in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Click and scroll to read more about Ard Hoyt

Read Alone

For Students

Aylesworth, Jim. Aunt Pitty-Patty's Piggy/ retold by Jim Aylesworth and illus. by Barbara McClintock. Scholastic, 1999. RL 5.6.

Illinois author Jim Aylesworth retells the story of the pig that won't go over the stile. None of the other animals want to help make it happen either. But, then it all turns around and goes the other way.

"The creatures' expressions and body language add to the fun, as stubborn disobedience and antisocial behavior give way to a hilarious community effort." (Booklist. Sept. 15, 1999.)

Other Cumulative Tales

Aardema, Verna. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain : a Nandi Tale. Dial Books for Young Readers, c1981. (-E-) RL 3.4

Kalan, Robert. Jump, Frog, Jump! Greenwillow Books, 1995, c1981. (-E-) RL 2.1.

Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich. The Enormous Turnip. Harcourt, c2003. (-E-) RL 3.1

Wood, Audrey. The Napping House. Harcourt Brace, c1984. (-E-) RL 3.2