Harding, Marcia Pierce. 2018. Secrets of Sable Island. Nimbus Publishing Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 206 pages.
Review (Janet Barkhouse): The author, Marcia Pierce Harding, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, taught elementary school for thirty-three years, and knows what entertains youngsters. This charming children’s book, set in the early 1900s, is the tale of Caleb, a fourteen-year-old boy working on a fishing schooner not far from Sable Island, the dreaded “Graveyard of the […]
Barkhouse, Janet. 2010. Sable Island—Imagine! Illustrated by Sally Bratt. Porcupine Chapter Book Series, Curriculum Plus Publishing Company, Toronto, Ontario. 47 pages.
Note (ZL): The author first visited Sable Island in early spring 2008—a sunny day-trip with friend Sandra Barry. In this story Janet Barkhouse shares many of that day’s experiences—sights, sounds, and scents of Sable—but presents them as they would be experienced by a very excited and delighted child. The child’s adventure includes travel on a […]
