[JenB]

That sounds fairly original... we have a picture book called "Paddle to the Sea", about a little wooden indian in a canoe who is carved by a boy in Canada, set afloat in the Great Lakes, and travels down to the sea... and the boy finds him, years later, on a beach in France.

[RosieCotton]

we have a picture book called "Paddle to the Sea",

I loved that book...Mom read it out loud to us, after which my brother and I immediately made little wooden canoes to send off...unfortunately ours never made it much farther than a couple hundred yards down the creek...