Boats!

Bryony Davies works in children's publishing where she edits, writes and commissions a variety of books. She lives in Hertfordshire with her family and ever-increasing menagerie of pets, which currently includes a large Labrador, a rather lazy cat, five fish and four noisy chickens. Maria Brzozowska is a visual storyteller who enjoys taking a poetic approach to her art creating new, unknown lands. She uses traditional painting techniques aided by digital methods. She also works with children's book publishers and loves illustrating magical and poetic stories.

Contains seafaring vehicles large and small, from towering cruise ships to tiny kayaks, fishing boats to submersibles • Miscellany spreads include rowing, sailing and fishing boats, record breakers, passenger vessels, working ships, military boats, submarines and boats for fun • Scenes include a lifeboat rescue, a fishing harbour, at the docks, tugboats, dragon boat races, canal boats, loading at the port and a floating market • Cutaway images show inside a car ferry and a submarine, and readers can learn the names for the different parts of a boat.