Junior High Up: 'The Cruise of the Santa Maria'
Like the Irishmen she writes about, Eilís Dillon is a natural storyteller…. The lives of Irishmen and Spaniards are honestly and effectively described and characterized [in The Cruise of Santa Maria]. For all that, though, only the mature reader can be comfortable with a story of gossipy intent, in which the teenagers are for the most part, spectators of the affairs of adults.
Jean C. Thomson, "Junior High Up: 'The Cruise of the Santa Maria'," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the September, 1967 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1967), Vol. 14, No. 1, September, 1967, p. 128.
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