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Through the eyes of young Paul, we get to experience a trip to Manhattan from the pilot house of the Staten Island Ferry. It's a special trip for Paul, who's been invited by the Captain. He will get to pass his favorite ship, the grandest ocean liner of them all, the Queen Elizabeth 2 on her way out to sea. On board with Paul, young readers will learn facts about the Ferry, itself, as well as the navigational and historical significance of New York Harbor.

Presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing (eseru) of Mesopotamian constellations. Describes these constellations in terms of their parts: body parts for constellations in human or animal form, parts of a wagon for “The Wagon” and “The Wagon of Heaven” (the Big and Little Dipper), and so forth. The descriptions also typically speak of the clothing that constellations in human form wear, their beards if they are male, and paraphernalia that they hold or carry. In the case of “The...

Through the eyes of Caleb, we get to experience a trip to Manhattan from the pilot house of the Staten Island Ferry. It's a special trip for Caleb with his grandfather who is the Captain. Caleb gets to see his favorite ocean liner, the QE2 on it's last trip to England from America. On board with Caleb and his grandfather, Captain Nick, young readers will learn facts about the Ferry, navigational and historical significance of New York Harbor.