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    The Summer of the Marco Polo

    By Lynn Manuel and Kasia Charko

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    In the summer of 1883 a famous clipper ship ran aground off the coast of Prince Edward Island near the home of a young girl named Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lucy Maud, who became one of Canada's most beloved writers, wrote about the grand adventure in her journals and reflected on it years later in her notebooks. The town of Cavendish was transformed by the presence of the crew, and the ship's captain stayed with Lucy Maud and her strait-laced grandparents. Lynn Manuel has taken Lucy Maud's memories and shaped them into a story that will transfix and enchant readers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateMar 1, 2007
    ISBN9781551438870
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    The Summer of the Marco Polo
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    Lynn Manuel

    Lynn Manuel was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. The daughter of a steel-worker, she graduated from McMaster University with a degree in history and went on to receive a Bachelor of Education degree from the Ontario Teacher Education College. After moving to British Columbia in 1976, she began her writing career while raising her two children, Jennifer and David. When her children were older, she returned to school to complete a Masters degree in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. She now lives in White Rock, British Columbia, with her husband, Ken, where she enjoys giving readings in the schools and libraries, and spending time with her grandchildren–Ben, Emma, and Maddy.

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    • 3/5
      In the summer of 1883, the world-famous clipper Marco Polo ran aground off the coast of P.E.I. near young Lucy Maud Montgomery's home. Maud wrote about this event in her journal and one of her first literary compositions was a piece on the wreck of the Marco Polo. After quite adoring Lynn Manuel's Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat, I was expecting to also greatly enjoy her picture book on the wreck of the Marco Polo, The Summer of the Marco Polo. Unfortunately though, this story has proven rather disappointing to and for me. While the content of the narrative itself is engaging enough, the writing style, the general flow of the text tends to be somewhat uneven, and far from smooth. In addition, some of the names mentioned in the story, like Wellington and Dave Nelson and Pensie MacNeill, for example, could have benefitted from supplemental explanation. Having extensively read much biographical and autobiographical information on Lucy Maud Montgomery, I know that Pensie MacNeill was Maud's best friend at the time of the wreck of the Marco Polo, and that Wellington and Dave Nelson were two young boys who boarded at Maud's house (her grandparents' house). But for children reading The Summer of the Marco Polo (or even adults without the foreknowledge who Pensie MacNeill and the Nelson boys were), the often haphazard mention of personal names without adequate explanation as to their relationship with and to Maud could easily feel and become somewhat distracting. That being said, I still rather enjoyed reading The Summer of the Marco Polo, but its unbalanced presentation and lack of explanatory details did somewhat lessen my reading pleasure.I also do not particularly like Kasia Charko's illustrations. Although her seascapes, her depiction of the ocean, of nature, of the stricken Marco Polo, of buildings are generally realistically conceived and rendered, some of her human figures appear rather exaggerated, even slightly disturbing. I really do not understand why Grandmother MacNeill looks somewhat green-skinned, almost witch-like, and even young Maud, with her often unruly fly-away hair and braids appears quite wild at times, too disheveled for my personal taste.