Welcome to ‘Fine Lines’, the feature in which we give a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look at the children’s and YA books we loved in our youth. This week, writer/reviewer/blogger Lizzie Skurnick re-reads the Newbury Medal-award winning 1961 Scott O’Dell classic ‘Island of the Blue Dolphins’. Advertisement I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. All I want for Christmas is a skirt of black cormorant feathers that shimmer green in the sun! There. I’ve said it. While we’re on the subject, I also want a yucca skirt of tightly woven fibers, a sealskin belt, some sealskin sandals, a necklace of glittering black stones, a bull-elephant-tooth wrislet spear to kill devilfish with and-oh, what the hell. Here’s the rest of my wishlist: Three fine needles of whalebone, an awl for making holes, a good stone knife for scraping hides, two cooking pots, and a small box made from a shell with many earrings in it. Did you hear that, Mom? A good stone knife. (I am completely serious.) I am speaking, of course, of the possessions of one Won-a-pa-lei, secret name Karana, last inhabitant of the village of Ghalas-at, located on the outcropping of earth known… Read full this story
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