The Jolly Steamship is ready to set sail! All the passengers, except a hard-to-please Pekinese, love watching the weird and wonderful creatures they meet on their journey--from diving dolphins, smiling seals, and wallowing whales to a jazzy octopus and a dishy jellyfishy. When the Jolly Steamship sails home, even the Peke wants to come back next year. Harry Rowohlt's rollicking rhymes and Walter Trier's quirky 1940s illustrations make this voyage irresistible fun. AUTHOR: Harry Rowohlt is an author, translator, newspaper columnist, and talented speaker and performer. Harry has translated 178 books from English into German, including A .A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh." Among his numerous awards are the German Academy's Johann Friedrich Voss Prize for Language and Literature (1999) and the Gottinger Elch Prize for Satire (2001). Walter Trier (1890-1951), newspaper cartoonist and illustrator, was forced to break off his studies at the Prague School for Arts and Crafts, as he was deemed to be lacking in ability. In 1910 he moved to Berlin, where he quickly became one of the most famous cartoonists in the country. ILLUSTRATIONS: Colour