Winkelman, Barbara Gaines

Before he can become a real boy, a kindly woodcarver's favorite puppet must learn right from wrong.

Swimming against the current and avoiding fishing nets and predators, Sockeye Salmon travels from the Pacific Ocean through Puget Sound, the Ballard Locks Canal, Lake Union, Lake Washington, and up the Cedar River to return to his birthplace and spawn.

Before he can become a real boy, a kindly woodcarver's favorite puppet must learn right from wrong.

Flying Squirrel is awakened by a giant paw poking into his rooftop nest and decides it is time to look for a new home.

Relates the history of how the Panama Canal was built and studies the economic and political consequences of its construction.