There are a variety of interpretations about this story ... what is yours? ( )

This wordless book can have many interpretations on what the story about. An old guy draws a picture of a boat, puts it in a bottle and sails away. A young boy finds it, draws himself on the boat and travels to find the old guy that drew it. ( )

An elderly man draws a picture of a magical flying ship in this wordless picture-book from Brazilian artist Rogério Coelho, launching it out to sea in the same bottle that brought him the paper. Eventually his drawing finds its way to a little boy, living in a city far away. The little boy changes the drawing, adding himself and his cat as passengers on the boat, before taping it up over his bed. In his dreams - or are they dreams? - he sails off to meet the old man, and the two spend some time together, before parting again...

Having greatly enjoyed Coelho's artwork in such titles as Brynne Barnes' Books Do Not Have Wings and Lucy Branam's Roof Octopus, I was curious to track down one of his own stories, and see how I would like it. I found Boat of Dreams just lovely, and appreciated the many ways one could interpret the story. Is the boy a younger version of the old man, each one dreaming of the other? Is the boy the man's grandson, separated either by distance or death, but reunited in dream? Either could be the case, and that is all to the good, giving this an open-ended, dream-like quality entirely appropriate to the story (whatever it is). Recommended to fans of Rogério Coelho's artwork, and to readers who enjoy wordless picture-books. ( )

This book is full of beautiful illustrations that will engage many children. A story about a older man who find a bottle on the shore. He takes the bottle home to open. He draws a picture of a boat and sends it away in the ocean and somehow it makes it to a boy. The story is sweet and magical. I’m not sure how I would use this in the classroom but I’d love to have it available for students to peruse.

Wordless story about a man and a boat and a boy and a boat and you just need to read it, I think. The art is amazing, and every time I think about it, I come up with a different interpretation of what's happening in the story (which is part of the beauty of it, I think). I *especially* love the man's bird and the boy's cat. ( )