Peggy Of The Cove A Legend

by Ivan Fraser

Peggy of the Cove is the legend of a young girl who was the only survivor of a shipwreck at Halibut Rock, Nova Scotia in the mid 1800s. Live through her ordeal from storm to shipwreck to rescue during the terrible storm. Discover how Peggy's Cove was named. Also available is an illustrated version of the story with stunning full-colour drawings by David Preston Smith.

Genres: Canada

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Ivan Fraser is an established artist and photographer born and raised in Nova Scotia. His latest endeavors include writing a song and authoring books about a little girl who became known as "Peggy Of The Cove" after surviving a shipwreck. It's his desire that Peggy touches your heart as you read about her life from being shipwrecked, taken into a new home and ultimately discovering who she really is."

Reviews

[Cabiria Aquarius · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a splendid little tale of Peggy of the Cove. It’s close to home as I have family in Nova Scotia and have visited Peggy’s Cove many times. I love it there.

I loved the story of Peggy though I have found some grammatical and spelling errors. But also .. I was a little confused as one chapter spoke of Christmas and the following chapter spoke of Halloween a few weeks after she arrived to the family so I’m assuming it meant the Halloween before the Christmas spoken of in the chapter before.

Besides those the story was wonderful and touching. I loved it.

[Reba · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, my mom and sister were in Canada this summer, and came across this author, and this story. They are amazing doll-faces, and were thinking about me, so they brought it for me. I have just started it today, and it's funny how unfamiliar I am with first-person narration. It's a bit of an adjustment in my reading style. Not unpleasant, just different.

This doesn't really read like a cohesive narrative, a story in sequential order. It's almost as if each chapter is a little vignette of life in this small village in Nova Scotia. It reminds me a little of L.M. Montgomery's books.

[Kirsten · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Peggy touches your heart as you read about her life from being shipwrecked, taken into a new home and ultimately discovering who she really is."

I found this book was more about the local gossip that was told to Peggy than about her life itself. Also maybe Peggy does "ultimately discover who she really is" but that isn't relayed on to the reader, which I found was disappointing. We are lead on with the fact Peggy can't remember much of her past, hoping that means we will find out more later on as to who she really is aka who she was before. No by the end we are just as clueless as the beginning except a "faint memory" has awakened in her which doesn't get explained. Very frustrating.

The timeline of the story is far too choppy for my liking. I get the feeling of stream of consciousness aspects where present tense and past tense are interchanged often. I found this hard to follow. One part I am being let up to Christmas with plans and preparations and then I am back to Halloween not long after the wreck.

There were several events (insignificant or otherwise) that I would have appreciated hearing the story about for the perspective of them initially taken place versus the later references to them that come up in the story and presume the first event is already common knowledge.

[Pat · Rating 2 out of 5]

I visited Peggy's Cove, a tiny community on the edge of Nova Scotia. Beautiful spot. I bought this book after driving past the author's home, which is painted in a mural of the cove itself. I wanted to like this book, because I find the author and all his enthusiasm remarkable. Ivan Fraser is an artist and has wonderful paintings to his name. The problem is that he writes on a 5th grade level. Obviously a self published book. I got half way through and decided to stop wasting my time.

[Susie Pozzobon]

Sadly, I don't think it will let me give this book zero stars. It was a cute idea but it written very poorly. I think my 11 year old could have written this book. While the opening sequence of the storm and the lone survivor of the shipwreck was quite exciting the rest is just a choppy mess of "stories", most of which are not even all that clever or interesting.

[Peg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good stories bad writing