Re: (MC) Book review
2008-Jan-19-0640hrs
The book review. I think the Book is an excellent read for all ages. Pat
Pat Ryan
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To: MConline@yahoogroups.com
From: cathybuff@candw.ms
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:42:03 -0500
Subject: (MC) Book review
Hi everybody
Just attaching a book review for your interest.
Best wishes
Cathy
“Emerald Isle of Adventure” by Rachel CollisA book review by Cathy Buffonge
In pre-volcanic times, Rachel Collis wrote a serialized adventure story for children, which appeared each week in the Montserrat Reporter under the name the Emerald Isle of Adventure. She is now publishing it as a book, and it is a welcome addition to the growing number of Caribbean books for children. Adults will enjoy it too.
Emerald Isle of Adventure begins in Houston, Texas, but quickly moves to Montserrat. Jenny, a divorced American mother of two, travels to Montserrat with her Montserratian friend Kevin and her two children, eleven year old Michael and nine year old Tammy.
Tammy is happy about the trip and her Mom’s relationship with Kevin, while Michael resents both Kevin and the Montserrat trip. This soon improves though, once they arrive in Montserrat.
The children get involved in a series of adventures, whether it is getting lost while chasing an iguana, getting to know fishermen on the beach, learning Montserrat dialect, making friends with a dolphin while diving, getting butt by a ram goat or going up the mountain to meet the “mountain man”. Helping the police in a night raid at the beach, coping with a hurricane, getting lost in the Soufriere Hills, being shipwrecked on Redonda, and nearly drowning trying to rescue a friend are more exciting incidents that Michael and his friend Kareem get into.
Issues like race, cultural differences, divorce, discipline, sibling rivalry, Rastafarian beliefs, and gender differences in bringing up children, are addressed as they come up in a straightforward and matter of fact way.
The book is full of pre-volcano touches, like travelling to Montserrat by BWIA and LIAT, driving through Eastern villages, and shopping in Plymouth; then there is the trip to Galways plantation and soufriere, the bamboo forest, Ghaut Mefraime and Tar River. All these references give the story a historical touch which adults will appreciate, and which will give children an insight into pre-volcano times. Montserratians will also appreciate the many references to local culture, like goatwater, souse, local hospitality, eating from a calabash, a political meeting and many more.
With forty-five chapters the book is long, but the chapters themselves are short and are full of dialogue and action, which carry you forward to see what will happen next. This book will make an ideal present for children and for the whole family to enjoy, and a good souvenir for returning Montserratians and Montserrat-lovers to take back with them. The book is being published by Amazon and should be available soon.
2008-Jan-19-0640hrs
The book review. I think the Book is an excellent read for all ages. Pat
Pat Ryan
________________________________________
To: MConline@yahoogroups.com
From: cathybuff@candw.ms
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:42:03 -0500
Subject: (MC) Book review
Hi everybody
Just attaching a book review for your interest.
Best wishes
Cathy
“Emerald Isle of Adventure” by Rachel CollisA book review by Cathy Buffonge
In pre-volcanic times, Rachel Collis wrote a serialized adventure story for children, which appeared each week in the Montserrat Reporter under the name the Emerald Isle of Adventure. She is now publishing it as a book, and it is a welcome addition to the growing number of Caribbean books for children. Adults will enjoy it too.
Emerald Isle of Adventure begins in Houston, Texas, but quickly moves to Montserrat. Jenny, a divorced American mother of two, travels to Montserrat with her Montserratian friend Kevin and her two children, eleven year old Michael and nine year old Tammy.
Tammy is happy about the trip and her Mom’s relationship with Kevin, while Michael resents both Kevin and the Montserrat trip. This soon improves though, once they arrive in Montserrat.
The children get involved in a series of adventures, whether it is getting lost while chasing an iguana, getting to know fishermen on the beach, learning Montserrat dialect, making friends with a dolphin while diving, getting butt by a ram goat or going up the mountain to meet the “mountain man”. Helping the police in a night raid at the beach, coping with a hurricane, getting lost in the Soufriere Hills, being shipwrecked on Redonda, and nearly drowning trying to rescue a friend are more exciting incidents that Michael and his friend Kareem get into.
Issues like race, cultural differences, divorce, discipline, sibling rivalry, Rastafarian beliefs, and gender differences in bringing up children, are addressed as they come up in a straightforward and matter of fact way.
The book is full of pre-volcano touches, like travelling to Montserrat by BWIA and LIAT, driving through Eastern villages, and shopping in Plymouth; then there is the trip to Galways plantation and soufriere, the bamboo forest, Ghaut Mefraime and Tar River. All these references give the story a historical touch which adults will appreciate, and which will give children an insight into pre-volcano times. Montserratians will also appreciate the many references to local culture, like goatwater, souse, local hospitality, eating from a calabash, a political meeting and many more.
With forty-five chapters the book is long, but the chapters themselves are short and are full of dialogue and action, which carry you forward to see what will happen next. This book will make an ideal present for children and for the whole family to enjoy, and a good souvenir for returning Montserratians and Montserrat-lovers to take back with them. The book is being published by Amazon and should be available soon.
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