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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0803715420
ISBN-13: 9780803715424
Sep 1997
Publisher: Penguin USA
Grade:
From 2 to 3
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In a risky plan to free her kidnapped lover, Oonagh cleverly solves the evil pirate king's riddles, unites the princess Ethne with her lover, and invents sails., In order to save her beloved from a greedy pirate king, an Irish maiden named Oonagh must figure out the answer to four tricky riddles such as "How do you capture the wind on the water?" and "How do you count all the stars in the sky?". Illustrated with oil paintings.
| Size | | Height: | 11.5 in | | Width: | 9.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
MacGill-Callahan (The Children of Lir) combines the flavor of a traditional tale with a few gender reversals in this spirited story. Here, an Irish farm woman rescues her kidnapped beloved from a pirate king. Resourceful Oonagh learns that if she claims to seek the pirate king's son's hand in marriage, she will be set four riddles to answer and given four weeks to come up with a rescue plan for herself and her intended. She handles the first three riddles with ease, and the final riddle "How do you capture the wind on the water?" leads her to invent sails, which enables the prisoners' escape by boat. The simple, occasionally poetic prose ("White, blue, and scarlet wings blossom over the boats" when the sails are raised) maintains a lively clip. Manchess debuts with brushy, impressionistic oils that give the characters a stalwart, rough-hewn look. An often luxuriant sense of color, strongly modeled forms, unusual angles and dramatic close-ups also make his work more robust than a more strictly realistic treatment.While fairy tale lovers will find the structure of this story familiar, its animated revisions offer welcome twists on well-worn formulas. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)
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Gr 1-3 Oonagh's life is a happy one until the day that Malcolm, the pirate king, captures the best weavers and needleworkers of Ireland, including her betrothed, and carries them off to his island. After a princess (whose true love is also a prisoner) describes her experiences in Malcolm's clutches, Oonagh devises a plan to free the slaves and travels to the brigands' stronghold. Once there, she agrees to answer the pirate's demand that she solve four riddles in four weeks. During her month on the island, she wins Malcolm's approval with three clever answers. Her final response to the fourth riddle, "How do you capture the wind on the water?" becomes obvious when the prisoners make their perilous but ultimately successful escape using Oonagh's invention, which is also the riddle's answer sails. This original story is presented in lyrical language that captures the traditional cadence of much-told tales. The text is so lean, however, that it occasionally moves from scene to scene without the background required to lend coherence to events. The accompanying oil paintings on full- and double-page spreads use color and bold brushwork in a manner reminiscent of N. C. Wyeth. The strong contrast of light and dark, heroic perspectives, and hollow-eyed pirates combine to add drama and depth to the spare prose. Well suited to reading aloud, this story will satisfy armchair adventurers with its resourceful heroine and swashbuckling intrigue. Carol Ann Wilson, Westfield Memorial Library, NJ
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