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Scuffy the Tugboat
Classic fiction
Scuffy the Tugboat
32 pages · First published 1946
Scuffy is a toy tugboat with grand ambitions who believes the bathtub is far too small for an important vessel like himself. A rushing stream carries him away into wider waterways, where each new stretch of river seems exciting until the scale of the world becomes frightening. His voyage eventually makes the safety of home look very different from confinement. Gertrude Crampton’s Little Golden Book classic uses a simple toy-boat adventure to explore independence, contentment, and the realization that being small does not require pretending the world is smaller too.
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Mild child-sized peril involving a small tugboat swept into a larger river and needing to find his way home; no mature content.
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