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Name Your New Boat
from A Children's Book
(Matt Berman compiled this list. I just realized that not all of them are
names for boats in the stories. Nonetheless, many of them are. So,
enjoy.)
Here is the list of boat name from Children's Literature, both the ones I
came up with and the ones other suggested. Thanks to all who responded.
Wasp - from Stuart Little
We're Here - from Captain's Courageous
Brain of Pooh - from Winnie the Pooh
Jolly Roger - Peter Pan
Thrush's Nest - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Zephyr - Van Allsburg
Rita Anne - Wretched Stone
Hispaniola - Treasure Island
Dawn Treader - Narnia
Frog - voyage of the Frog
Swallow - Swallows and Amazons
Arrow - The Coral Island
Anna Pink - Admirable Crichton, The Boy Castaways
ReaderShip
Childlit or variant Childlight
KiddieLit
Book Bat
Tuck - I assume from Tuck Everlasting
Resurre - Wind Eye
Jennie Deans - The Little Grey Men - also Dragonfly
Oshun Oxtra - The Exploits of Moominpappa
Nautilus - 20000 Leagues Under the Sea
Any one of the ships captained by Horatio Hornblower? (YA, rather than
children's literature!)
QV66 - Penelope Lively's similar Voyage thereof
THE RAFT - from Huck Finn
BOOK'EM
Randy - the kid in _The Saturdays_ who falls out of a rowboat in the pond
in Central Park
Some Pig - Charlotte's Web
Winken, Blinken and Nod
Peter Pan, Wendy, or Tinkerbell
Madness - Alice in Wonderland
New Moon - Emily of New Moon
Dandelion Wine
Red Fish, Blue Fish
Old Turtle
Watership Up
Water Rat - Wind in the Willows
Max - Where the Wild Things Are
Walrus - Treasure Island
Ramoth - Dragon Queen
Muck-about - Wind in the Willows
Gumpy - Mr. Gumpy's outing
something from The Island of the Skog (does the boat have a name?)
Look Far - A Wizard of Earthsea
The Seahawk - from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Pirate Queen - Jane Yolen's new book about women pirates
Tough Boris - another pirate by Mem Fox
Puddleby-on-the-sea - Doctor Dolittle
Gabool the Wild; Waveblade; Darkqueen; Mariel - Redwall seafaring
characters/ships:
Wizard of Earthsea; The Farthest Shore
Selkie Girl (Susan Cooper)
Tolkien sea-related names: Cirdan (the shipwright); Grey Haven; ByWater
Sedna - spirit of the sea in Inuit (Eskimo) myth
GREYLING - Jane Yolen's book of the same name
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