The Boat Book - Science Emergent Readers Author:Samantha Berger, Pamela Chanko All aboard! Get ready to set sail into the world of boats and find out what makes them move. Filled with colorful photographs of all types of boats. A back page has definitions of various kinds of boats for you to read to your child or for a child to read by himself or herself. Riverboats, sailboats, paddles, motors, oars, steamboats.