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- Title: Maxine Trottier and Nancy Keating, Forget-Me-Not (Children's Review) (Book Review)
- Author : Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 345 KB
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Maxine Trottier and Nancy Keating, Forget-me-not. St. John's: Tuckamore Books, 2008, ISBN 9781897174241. Forget-me-not, a children's book written by Maxine Trottier and illustrated by Nancy Keating, is a work of historical fiction set in 1917. The story opens with a portrait of a young girl, Bridget Keats, who spends her days by the sea watching boats through her spyglass. While emphasis is placed on what Bridget sees and what she is told, her perspective is narrated in the third person limited point of view, a mode which is often privileged in historical narratives for the focus on the objective representation of facts in the text. Trottier, however, introduces elements of subjectivity in her book by introducing fiction into her story and by telling this story in the perspective of the main character. As Kelley Griffith puts it,