- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Commonwealth Editions (Jan 1 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1889833355
- ISBN-13: 978-1889833354
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 28.8 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 422 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,370,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The building of the schooner Thomas E. Lannon as seen through the eyes of a boy, this charming children’s book chronicles the extraordinary construction of a great sailing vessel. In the late 1990s, the legendary shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts, buzzed as they had a century before: Under the guiding hand of Harold Burnham, whose family has crafted boats in Essex for generations, the schooner Thomas E. Lannon was built. It was patterned after the 19th-century vessel Nokomis, one of the last large engineless schooners to fish off the Grand Banks. Distinguished children’s author and artist Pat Lowery Collins tells the tale of Essex shipwrights in action, and of a young boy who watched and helped as the mighty boat rose from keel to spars. · Here is the fascinating true story of how a schooner is built, the traditional tools and techniques of shipwrights · Set as the diary of a young boy living next door to the shipyard, the text is based on real events. · Detailed illustrations bring the boy and the boat to life. Pat Lowery Collins is the author of twelve books for children and young adults. Her picture book I Am An Artist was a Reading Rainbow selection in two years. Her latest book is the young adult novel Just Imagine. An artist as well as an author, she lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Schooner is the first book she both wrote and illustrated.
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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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By Martha Bennett Stiles - Published on Amazon.com
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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