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After spending years searching for children’s books about Lake Superior shipwrecks, Kathy Groth decided it was up to her to put pen to paper. Twenty-eight years later, the retired elementary education teacher has finished a charming tale featuring real shipwrecks and stories about how those vessels came to sink to the bottom of Lake Superior.
The 64-page book is filled with pictures of sunken ships, lighthouses, islands, and notable places and facts about Lake Superior.
The story begins when two girls, Chase and Brizo (Bri), meet at the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center in Duluth and both find they love learning about shipwrecks. Chase’s father is an underwater archeologist who has studied Great Lake shipwrecks, and Chase is going to spend the summer with him traveling to maritime museums around the Great Lakes while he gives his lectures.
During the girls’ time together, Bri takes Chase on a magical adventure to shipwrecks on Lake Superior. We learn about the wreck of the Western Reserve, Madeira, Gunilda, Henry B. Smith, Kamloops, the America, and Edmund Fitzgerald, to name a few. We also discover there were lost minesweepers (Inkernman and Cerisoles), and learn that the Banncokburn, which is called the Flying Dutchmen of Lake Superior, is said to reappear, and warn ships captains of bad weather.
The end of the book has a nice twist, and one hopes it doesn’t take another 28 years for this Hayward, Wisconsin author to write another children’s book. A tale woven expertly enough to keep any adult reader happy as well.
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