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Make Way for a Sailor!
161 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1946
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Nora Benjamin Kubie
17 books1 followerNora Benjamin Kubie (1899 - 1988) was an American writer, artist and amateur archaeologist.
She was the grandmother of author Lincoln Child.
She was the grandmother of author Lincoln Child.
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May 2, 2019
This was one of what feels like several dozen obscure books I created goodreads entries for, for the purpose of adding them to this list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Although it was a fun project I don't regret giving a lot of time to, I concluded pretty early on that it was not going to be the source of wonderful hitherto unknown to me reads I'd imagined (among other reasons, this has to do with a suspiciously large number of books from the same obscure long-defunct publishing house, and a suspiciously large number of books from the same unknown author. I suspect personal connections were at play).
None-the-less, when I come across one of the books I added, I can't help thinking of it as my baby and feel duty-bound to give it a try, so I gladly picked up Make Way for a Sailor!, published in 1946, for $3 at the lovely Old Bookshop in Morristown New Jersey a couple weeks ago.
Beverly, his mother and much younger brother have just moved to a small maritime Connecticut town for the duration of the war. Beverly is isolated because despite having a father who is at sea as a naval physician, he knows nothing about sailing, the only passion of all the other local children. They mock him for his uselessness with boats, as well as for his glasses and his name. (I'm a little surprised that his striped shirt and sailor's hat cocked just so, as depicted on the cover, don't also draw jeers, but these details aren't mentioned in the text, so I suppose that's the illustrator's fault.)
Although I had very low expectations going in, the story was better than I expected, and was a quick read, taking place only over the course of a couple days. I was very glad that despite all the sailing, and the visiting of offshore islands, there was no hidden treasure involved. It's more about Beverly growing in confidence when, after making a rash decision about "borrowing" another boy's decrepit boat, he endures an all-day ordeal that comes out better than he deserves, and realizes sailing might be his thing after all.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Although it was a fun project I don't regret giving a lot of time to, I concluded pretty early on that it was not going to be the source of wonderful hitherto unknown to me reads I'd imagined (among other reasons, this has to do with a suspiciously large number of books from the same obscure long-defunct publishing house, and a suspiciously large number of books from the same unknown author. I suspect personal connections were at play).
None-the-less, when I come across one of the books I added, I can't help thinking of it as my baby and feel duty-bound to give it a try, so I gladly picked up Make Way for a Sailor!, published in 1946, for $3 at the lovely Old Bookshop in Morristown New Jersey a couple weeks ago.
Beverly, his mother and much younger brother have just moved to a small maritime Connecticut town for the duration of the war. Beverly is isolated because despite having a father who is at sea as a naval physician, he knows nothing about sailing, the only passion of all the other local children. They mock him for his uselessness with boats, as well as for his glasses and his name. (I'm a little surprised that his striped shirt and sailor's hat cocked just so, as depicted on the cover, don't also draw jeers, but these details aren't mentioned in the text, so I suppose that's the illustrator's fault.)
Although I had very low expectations going in, the story was better than I expected, and was a quick read, taking place only over the course of a couple days. I was very glad that despite all the sailing, and the visiting of offshore islands, there was no hidden treasure involved. It's more about Beverly growing in confidence when, after making a rash decision about "borrowing" another boy's decrepit boat, he endures an all-day ordeal that comes out better than he deserves, and realizes sailing might be his thing after all.
August 21, 2019
The cover and title are dreadful, but its not a bad story about a kid being forced to try his hand at sailing, and getting lucky after a bad choice...
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