I am looking for my son’s favorite book when he was a small child. He was born in 1982, and the book dates from early to mid eighties in publication. Its title is “Busy Busy Port”, but I have no idea of the author. It’s a picture book.
The book is essentially nonfiction; there is no plot, nor are there characters. It’s just a picture book close-up of all the activities and the boats, ships and navigational devices and trains that center on a big city port.
The book is a small book, maybe 10 x 8, and nothing like Richard Scarry-type books with lots of flashy colors
Try this: Big City Port, by Betsy Maestro, 1983.
I looked this up and it is absolutely the right book! My son called it Busy Busy Port & I completely blanked on the fact that the title was something else! He has spent hours looking for this book among our thousands of stored books with no success. Now I can give him a Christmas present that he has longed for.
Thank you, thank you so much, Mama Squirrel and Loganberry!
Also Anne Millard’s Port Through Time.