Want to know what inspired this Margaret Wise Brown classic? Click on the book cover above to hear the tale. And – bonus note – her fiancé Jim “Pebble” Rockefeller was the model for the Sailor Dog. She asked her publisher to name the boat in the story after the boat Pebble built to circumnavigate the globe.

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