Little Toot. 'Sunday morning children's radio stories' Little Toot is a children's story, written and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky. Little Toot is a young tugboat who does not want to tug. Instead, he'd rather make figure eights in the harbor and bother all the other tugboats. But when he ends up all alone on the open water as a storm is rolling in, it’s up to him to save a stuck ocean liner. | Nostalgic Kiwi