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Roop, Peter , Roop, Connie

Good-Bye for Today: The Diary of a Young Girl at Sea

42 pp. | Atheneum | May, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-689-82222-7 $$16.00
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen. Nine-year-old Laura describes her 1871 Arctic voyage on her father's whaling ship. A deft mixture of mundane details (daily meals, schoolwork) and exciting experiences (whale sightings, storms) lends an authentic feel to Laura's diary, which an authors' note explains is based on the real-life adventures of two different girls. Small ink drawings pepper the diary's pages, but larger colored pencil illustrations are static and detract from the format. Glos.
Reviewer: Tanya D. Auger

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