Matt is on the living-room couch, surrounded by a bright blue rug...or is he sailing on the high seas? Rubber raft, canoe, fishing smack, pirate ship, submarine, ocean liner... Matt is captain of them all until--avast! His mother comes to vacuum the rug. What happens then will delight and astonish young children who, like Matt, can imagine a couch pillow as a smokestack, a cardboard tube as a paddle, and a vacuum cleaner as the legendary monster of the deep! Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sms sails triumphantly into port with this salty companion to Fire Truck and Trucks Trucks Trucks. Welcome aboard!

 

There are 20 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Peter Ss is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, and filmmaker. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. Peter is a seven-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a two-time Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honoree, and has won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal twice. Peter's books, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Tibet through the Red Box, and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain were all named Caldecott Honor books by the American Library Association. The Wall was also awarded the Robert F. Sibert Medal. In addition, Peter Ss is the first childrens book illustrator to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. He was chosen to deliver the 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture for the Association for Library Service to Children. Peter won the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. This award is considered the most prestigious in international children's literature, given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People. Peter Ss lives in the New York City area with his wife and children.