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captainjemima 's review for:
Aquicorn Cove
by K. O'Neill
I knew about Kay O’Neill’s graphic novel 'The Tea Dragon Society' a long while back, and then became aware that the series had grown, and O’Neill was writing different stories. However, I didn’t actually read any until after I’d bought and played the card game of 'The Tea Dragon Society' and the board game of 'Aquicorn Cove'. I love O’Neill’s illustrations and it was such a pleasure diving (see what I did there?) into this cute, whimsical story.
Our main character is Lana, who has travelled to the coast with her father to visit her aunt Mae. The coastal village where Mae lives has been hit by a powerful storm. Mae ribs Lana’s dad about not turning up until the clean-up was almost over. Lana revels in being back at the ocean – it becomes clear that she hasn’t been there since her mother passed away – and she gets stuck into helping get the village back to normal life again. She even finds an injured creature a bit like a seahorse called an Aquicorn which she wants to help nurse back to health.
The story is a little fantastical, but overall lands a powerful message of our relationship with the sea – how our actions can help or hurt it. It focuses especially on the damage to the coral reefs caused by pollution, oceans increasing in temperature, and damage by human practises e.g. fishing. At the end of the book there are a few pages of information about what’s going on in our oceans and what we can do to help preserve what’s left.
Overall, a very sweet graphic novel that I’ll surely return to again and again. I have the rest of Kay O’Neill’s books on backorder so I look forward to reading and reviewing more!
Our main character is Lana, who has travelled to the coast with her father to visit her aunt Mae. The coastal village where Mae lives has been hit by a powerful storm. Mae ribs Lana’s dad about not turning up until the clean-up was almost over. Lana revels in being back at the ocean – it becomes clear that she hasn’t been there since her mother passed away – and she gets stuck into helping get the village back to normal life again. She even finds an injured creature a bit like a seahorse called an Aquicorn which she wants to help nurse back to health.
The story is a little fantastical, but overall lands a powerful message of our relationship with the sea – how our actions can help or hurt it. It focuses especially on the damage to the coral reefs caused by pollution, oceans increasing in temperature, and damage by human practises e.g. fishing. At the end of the book there are a few pages of information about what’s going on in our oceans and what we can do to help preserve what’s left.
Overall, a very sweet graphic novel that I’ll surely return to again and again. I have the rest of Kay O’Neill’s books on backorder so I look forward to reading and reviewing more!