Pat Lowery Collins

Schooner Pat Lowery Collins

A children's book about how a schooner is built, this new work by celebrated children's author and illustrator Pat Lowery Collins is based on the building of the schooner Thomas E. Lannon in the shipyards of Essex, Massachusetts, a few years ago. Collins, who witnessed the construction and took hundreds of photographs to study it, translates the story into an imaginary boy's diary, illustrated by Collins's evocative oils.