A children's book about how a schooner is built, this new work by celebrated children's author and illustrator Pat Lowery Collins is based on the building of the schooner Thomas E. Lannon in the shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts, a few years ago. Collins, who witnessed the construction and took hundreds of photographs to study it, translates the story into an imaginary boy's diary, illustrated by Collins's evocative oils.
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From my earliest years I thought of myself as a poet and painter. As a child in Hollywood, I also acted on the radio.
At twenty, I graduated from the University of Southern California, married,and soon moved to New England. It wasn't until the youngest of our five children entered school that I began writing picture books, and in the past ten years I've gravitated to writing young adult novels as well. My books include the Reading Rainbow selection, "I Am An Artist", and the recent sequel, "I Am a Dancer". My newest historical novel is "Hidden Voices, The Orphan Musicians of Venice", published by Candlewick Press and a finalist for the Boston Author's Club 2010 Children's Book Award. It was also nominated for a Cybil Award, and was chosen for ALA's 2010 Rainbow List. My young adult novel in free verse, "The Fattening Hut", won the Boston Author's Club 2004 Julia Ward Howe Award and was a Book Sense Pick and ALA Amelia Bloomer choice. "Daughter of Winter", set in Essex, MA in 1849, is scheduled for publication in 2010, and a picture book, "The Deer Watch", is also forthcoming from Candlewick. A chapbook of my poems, "The Quiet Woman Wakes Up Shouting", is one in a series of chapbook originals published by Folly Cove Books. I teach in Lesley University's MFA program in creative writing and live and work in Gloucester, MA. My web site is www.patlowerycollins.com
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Schooner,
By Martha Bennett Stiles (Paris, KY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Schooner (Hardcover)
SCHOONER, written and illustrated by Pat Lowery Collins, is clear, intelligent, and useful; beautifully and intelligently illustrated and gracefully written. A contemporary youth engagingly describes the building of a schooner from laying her keel to launching her, making unfamiliar terms easy to grasp. What it took to construct these vessels when most of them were built, that is, in the centuries before power tools, also is part of the story. Any school or public library would do well to acquire SCHOONER, and surely it is a must for any library within fifty miles of a coast.
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