The Littlest Tugboat is a cheerful children's book about a family of tugboats that works hard to guide ships up and down the Kennebec River. Tommy, the littlest tugboat, chafes when his mother tells him to stay home during stormy weather, while his bigger siblings are hard at work. When Tommy ventures out on his own, he discovers a barge carried toward a low bridge by the storm”only the littlest tugboat can save the day, and the bridge, by guiding the barge to safety.

Littlest Tugboat

Children's Books

McGrail, Sarah Sherman

Action & Adventure

Islandport Press

A literary sampler from more than 50 Maine writers and artists, this journal includes writing from Tim Sample, Sanford Phippen, Sarah Sherman McGrail, Trudy Chambers Price, Robert Skoglund, Miriam Colwell, and many more.

Harbor Journal Vol 2

Literature & Fiction

United States

Silas Crockett traces life on the Maine coast through four generations of a seafaring family. This is a one-hundred-year epic filled with vibrant descriptions of the sweeping cultural, economic, and philosophical changes that washed over Maine. Mary Ellen Chase weaves wonderful historical detail with engaging characters so readers understand what it was like for a young wife to join her husband on a months-long trade voyage in 1830, and for a man raised in the tradition of seafaring forced to choose between leaving home for a long voyage or undertaking a risky, but shorter and more lucrative one. Chase draws her characters sharply and provides a voice to the everyday concerns and cares of people who lived and died by the sea. Written in 1935, Silas Crockett remains an important piece of literature for anyone who wishes to understand the rich maritime history of Maine.

Silas Crockett (Maine Classics)

Chase, Mary Ellen

Genre Fiction

John Cole's classic IN MAINE is a sometimes moving, sometimes lyrical, but always personal book that reveals a man examining the progress of life and a man reveling in a natural world that not only unfolds around him, but a world in which he is an active participant. IN MAINE features selected essays that first appeared in "John's Column" in the MAINE TIMES--the influential newspaper he co-founded in 1968 and guided during its glory days in the 1970s. This Islandport Press edition also adds more recent essays that still speak to the wondrous rhythms of life in Cole's signature style and demonstrate an enduring passion for Maine and the outdoors that remains unabated.

In Maine

Politics & Social Sciences

Cole, John N.

Social Sciences

In this critically acclaimed Maine classic, first published in 1945, Helen Hamlin writes of her adventures teaching school at a remote Maine lumber camp and then of living deep in the Maine wilderness with her game warden husband. Her experiences are a must-read for anyone who loves the untamed nature and wondrous beauty of Maine's north woods and the unique spirit of those who lived there. In the 1930s, in spite of being warned that remote Churchill Depot was no place for a woman, the remarkable Helen Hamlin set off at age twenty to teach school at the isolated lumber camp at the headwaters of the Allagash River. She eventually married a game warden and moved deeper into the wilderness. In her book, Hamlin captures that time in her life, complete with the trappers, foresters, lumbermen, woods folk, wild animals, and natural splendor that she found at Umsaskis Lake and then at Nine Mile Bridge on the St. John River.

Nine Mile Bridge Three Years in the Maine Woods

Biographies & Memoirs

Hamlin, Helen

Historical

Here for Generations: The Story of a Maine Bank and Its City tells the remarkable tale of a town and a bank that have moved in concert for 150 years, and captures their history through triumph and tragedy. Together, Bangor Savings Bank and Bangor have seen the rise and fall of the great lumber economy and survived the economic depression of the 1870s that nearly killed the bank. They experienced the Flood of 1902, rebuilt following the Great Fire of 1911, and hung tough during the Great Depression. And they watched the city become the region's premier service and retail hub. You will also find the bank's rise from its simple origin as a nineteenth-century repository for Bangor widows, orphans, and daily laborers to a statewide leader in the twenty-first century-a prime source of financial services, mortgages, and the capital that fuels the economic engine of the Pine Tree State. It has been a remarkable ride.

Here for Generations: The Story of a Maine Bank and its City

History

Dean Lawrence Lunt

Americas

A Moose and a Lobster Walk Into a Bar is a wonderful mix of classic Maine storytelling, stretched truths, and wry observations made by John McDonald during his many travels through the Pine Tree State. In this collection of essays and stories, John extols the important economic power of Maine's yard sale industry, bemoans the fact that Massachusetts, still upset because it allowed Maine to become a state in 1820, is buying it back one house at a time, and relates how the state's infamous black fly was really just an attempt at controlling tourists gone haywire. You will also meet Maine characters like Uncle Abner, Merrill Minzey, and Hollis Eaton, and find yourself pondering just where the truth ends and the story begins.

A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar

Humor & Entertainment

McDonald, John

Humor

Elizabeth Elder has worked as a teacher and a journalist. When I'm With You is her third book and her first full-color children's book. Leslie Mansmann has a degree from the Philadelphia College of Art and has worked for more than 25 years as a freelance illustrator. When I'm With You was her first children's book.

When I'm with You

Elizabeth Elder

In this bittersweet memoir of two decades of dairy farming, Trudy Chambers Price writes of the daily trials of haying, cow breeding, and milking against a backdrop of gentle and entertaining rural life. The work was never-ending and exhausting, but also exhilarating and rewarding. She introduces kind neighbors, eccentric neighbors, visiting city folk, and loveable pets. The Cows Are Out! is a tribute to hard-working family farmers and to an important part of the nation's historical and cultural heritage.

Cows are Out!: Two Decades on a Maine Dairy Farm

Price, Trudy

Memoirs

The adventurous blue lobster, Titus Tidewater, welcomes the summer season in Maine. Summer means exciting happenings close to the shoreline, but also lurking dangers in the shallow warm water. Titus cautiously explores his new surroundings but soon finds himself ensnared in a lobster trap. Unable to free himself, he is taken to a strange new world on land, before he is ultimately rescued by two children and the ocean itself. A recipient of the Society of Illustrators award, Suzy Verrier's lavish watercolors bring Titus's tale to life. This classic children's book narrates the life of one Maine lobster and displays a captivating world under the sea. Islandport has updated Titus with a new look and added fun facts about Maine lobsters throughout.

Titus Tidewater

Verrier, Suzy

Animals

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