# Please help identify children's book

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-childrens-book/646140
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 5, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-childrens-book/646140 "2013-01-05T05:44:55Z")
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### Author: ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-childrens-book/646140/1 "2013-01-05T05:44:55Z")

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When I was a small kid in the mid-70s, I had a picture book that was about the fantasized voyage of a boy who went to sea in a boat made from an overturned table, and at one point engaged in a battle using a cannon made of a log that shot out pancakes.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Thanks.