An Island Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk on a Barrier Island

by Virginia Wright-Frierson, Virginia Wright-Frierson (Illustrator)

Overview

Before the sun rises, an artist and her daughter slip out of their cottage into the morning air to explore and record the treasures of their North Carolina barrier island. They sketch, paint, and observe the sights around them and as night falls they return to their cottage, bringing back pieces of their island home to compile this scrapbook of a special time and place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689850561
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 10.12(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	6 - 18 Years

About the Author

Virginia Wright-Frierson is the author of Desert Scrapbook, a Simon & Schuster book.

Virginia Wright-Frierson is the author of Desert Scrapbook, a Simon & Schuster book.

Editorial Reviews

It is still dark when a mother and daughter head out to explore a North Carolinian barrier island in this shrewd, closely observed natural history. Sketch paper and watercolors at the ready, they record the unique world around them, both in paintings and note-taking, the pages of the notepads appearing as if they had fluttered down upon the handsome artwork. Readers are introduced to the salient aspects of the environment: maritime forests, the copious birdlife, yellow-bellied turtles and alligators, wind that can support the young girl as she tips forward, great heart cockles and jingle shells, mermaid's purses and ghost crabs. They witness both the bad—pollution, habitat degradation—and the good: the sublime experience of being present during a sea turtle hatch. Wright-Frierson (A Desert Scrapbook, 1996) has produced not just an admirable nature study (for that it surely is, conveying effortlessly an abundance of information in a welter of illustrations), but also a subtle, heart-gladdening love story of parent and child, who share with each other a fierce loyalty to a place, and who exhibit humility and respect toward it with no trace of sanctimony. (Picture book. 6-10)

Kirkus Reviews