Stunning and original graphic novel for all ages
Top 4 Reasons You Should Read AQUICORN COVE:

1.) The illustration- This is the third Katie O'Neill graphic novel I've read, and her art is simply gorgeous. The lines are soft with beautiful color schemes, and no one quite designs fantastical creatures like O'Neill. It is easy to get lost in the breathtaking worlds O'Neill creates and this ocean-based one is no exception.

2.) The gentle but fierce characters- Lana is a young girl still coping with the loss of her mother and the many changes her family has faced. Not to mention, she is also facing literal natural disasters that are mostly out of her control. The power in this story, as readers familiar with O'Neill's previous works will recognize, is Lana's growth in learning to understand what she can control, what she does have an impact on, and how to communicate that to both herself and those around her.

3.) The environmental awareness- A primary theme in AQUICORN COVE is understanding the balance of life on earth. Lana is visiting her former home, a village that has depended on fishing for decades. While previously, the village and the reefs surrounding it found a balance between sustaining both sides, that balance has now shifted. When the balance shifts, there are serious consequences. This story grapples with how our own small, often selfish actions can tip the scales, even when larger forces are at work.

4.) The relationships- It's hard to pick which relationship I love most in this book: Lana and her father's? Her and her aunt? Her aunt and Aure? Lana and herself? No character is perfect, as they should not be, but there is such kindness and hope in every relationship on the page, whether it is a familial one, a romantic one, or a friend one. This is a great story for young readers to learn how to show love to others and to the themselves in the midst of problems and unresolved emotion.

Katie O'Neill's graphic novels are a magical experience beyond compare. AQUICORN COVE joins her catalog of beautiful and heartfelt stories that you will want to turn to again and again.

I love Katie O'Neill's artwork and loved her previous works (especially Princess, Princess) but this one just fell short for me. It wasn't bad and the artwork of course was absolutely beautiful as always, but the story? For one thing it's so full of cliches … But what annoyed me most, was the ending which seemed rushed and incomplete. Aquicorn Cove still is worth looking at and it has some very important message but I enjoyed it not nearly as much as I expected.

Katie O'Neill's Aquicorn Cove is an adorably illustrated story about a girl named Lana and her father who return to their little island to visit Auntie Mae. Lana is still grieving the death of her mother, and she finds comfort in the familiarity of the island she used to call home before she moved away to live with her father.

The graphic novel follows Lana's return home and her personal exploration through the island. The story shows the island's connections with the people, flora, and fauna who live on the island and in the ocean around it and showcases the need to take care of our surroundings, especially our seas and our reefs, and does this through captivating and whimsical illustrations. The story also explores those concepts of care and love for people and our local places and how love manifests its way through different channels. Lana, in her exploration of the islands and the seas around it, discovers that she has to learn how to rely on herself and how to love herself in order to do what needs to be done. This sort of self-discovery is relatable on so many levels, and I felt like the writing was appropriate for all ages, not just for younger readers.

I loved it and devoured it in a single sitting, and I found myself wanting to be transported to this island for a visit myself.

An incredibly well written and illustrated graphic novel about ocean preservation and the power of communities. Thank you for presenting strong and beefy female characters, complex life stories and the importance of caring for a complex ecosystem.

This was a super cute graphic novel. I've read the Tea Dragon Society by the same author and I liked this one just as much as that! The message is a mix of protecting nature, community, and finding balances in relationships. The art work is really good and O'Neill tells a fantastic story.

I adored Katie O'Neill's other graphic novel so its no shock that I adored this!! She has such a unique and comforting drawing style. Her drawings and illustrations are always just beautiful and have so many beautiful colors and almost a dream-like quality to the drawings. This graphic novel has such a lovely plot with such well developed characters (for it being so short) that you can't help but fall in love. I will read anything Katie O"Neill writes!

This graphic novel has a heart warming story with cute illustrations and an environmental message. It deals with so many important themes; loss, sustainable use of natural resources, different ways of being feminine and strong... All in a way a child can understand and relate with.

Light, lovely and powerful.

This is another adorable story which is gorgeously illustrated. The story follows Lana who returns to her home town with her dad after to help her aunt and the town to rebuild after a storm. It is here that she rescues an Aquicorn and learns that they are in danger due to the overfishing that the town is doing.
Overall, I adored this and loved the message of how we are negatively impacting on our oceans and how we can all be doing more to protect them. I gave this 4 out of 5 stars.

This was a fun read and exactly what I look for from Katie O'Neill. The artwork is beautiful and the story fun.

I'm in agreement with the vast majority of the reviews of this book: This was just fantastic. The story is simple and touching and the art is endearing. My only minor gripe is that I wasn't a huge fan of the choice of font for the speech bubbles. But I wouldn't be surprised if I were joining the minority opinion about that.

This is really the perfect book to gift to a child for the upcoming holidays.

Another fantastic book from Katie O'Neill, although this one didn't quite live up the high standards set by her two previous graphic novels. This is still something I am very much looking forward to putting on the shelves at my library.

The author of The Tea Dragon Society returns with a graphic novel bound to satisfy her audience. As in her previous book, Aquicorn Cove has the same beautifully colored images, the same confident, sometimes wordless storytelling, similar relationships with unusual creatures, and a corresponding message about the necessity for balance with nature.

Lana and her father have come to visit her Aunt Mae in a coast-side town cleaning up after a substantial storm. Lana’s mother is gone, but Lana still has great memories of time spent with her on the beach. While checking on the damage, Lana discovers a baby aquicorn, a seahorse-like creature that needs nursing back to health.

O’Neill has once again created unusual but welcome characters. Mae, for instance, is a strong, brawny woman with a darker skin tone than red-headed Lana. Does that reflect Lana’s mother’s background or just more time spent outdoors? It doesn’t matter, and it’s not mentioned, but it contributes to the current yet timeless feel of the story.

Lana and her father help with the replanting and repairs during the day, and at night, Lana and Mae roast fresh-caught fish and observe the stars that can’t be seen from Lana’s city dwelling. It’s an ideal life, one that raises thoughts of enjoyment of and respect for the ocean. Would that more of us could live such a simple, responsible existence.

O’Neill’s pages aren’t clean-edged. Although the panels are often simple squares or rectangles, there are sometimes gaps where they meet up. They don’t always line up exactly, which adds to the mood of time passing, with individual moments captured from the flow of the scene. Also, it evokes the setting of the story, in an area recovering from a near natural disaster with broken fragments.

There are fantastic elements and more family connections as the story continues, but the underlying message is practical: humans cannot continue taking more and more without giving back. But it’s also a story about accepting and living with loss, with the tale of what happened to Lana’s mother. Due to her experiences, Lana learns to stand up for herself and what she believes in, an inspiring result from this impressively lovely modern fairy tale.

This book is beautiful, the story and the artwork ! A wonderful tale that about loss and reuniting, about environmentalism, teaching about responsibility and sustainability, all in a bright and beautiful way, its lie a beautiful Ghibli film in a book, in fact th S story would make a wonderful animated short for schools for being green. A wonderful story with great characters.

Streaked in pastel shades and heartwarming messages, Aquicorn Cove is a cute and light graphic novel yet imparts a relevant message on protecting the marine life. We follow a young Lana that helps her aunt's little island after it was ravaged by a storm. She reminisces on her days near the ocean when she was younger and consequently tries to get past the grief over her mother's death. And it was until when she nursed a young and injured aquicorn that she finally realized the random chain of events holds a deeper meaning for the little island.

Aquicorn Cove may be full of cliches but as an MG book, I think this delivers the message to a younger audience effectively. I really love the neat flat pastel colors, it really gives off a heartwarming vibe that a reader will definitely sense especially in the ending. Also, the cove really is beautiful! I recommend this to MG readers, especially to kids.

Aquicorn Cove is a short and sweet graphic novel about a girl discovering a world beneath the ocean while visiting her aunt.
I love graphic novels and if I read this in middle school, I am sure it would’ve been one of my absolute favorite books. The illustrations were bright and beautiful.
The underlying message is awesome SAVE THE OCEAN!!!

I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars. ⛤⛤⛤⛤ Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neill is a children's graphic novel. It's very short and sweet. It took me about 5 minutes to read. Even though it's a very quick read, it's an engaging, heartwarming story with adorable illustrations.
This story is about a girl, Lana, who returns to her seaside town with her dad to help her aunt clean up debris after a big storm sweeps through the village. She ends up finding a little, injured aquicorn, a sea creature resembling a seahorse. She learns about their underwater home and how the village is slowly destroying it by fishing with plastic nets, which causes them to scoop up more fish than they need. Wanting to protect both their world and her own, she tells her aunt to go back to the way her grandmother used to fish and, in the process, heals the little aquicorn.
I think this is a cute story that will engage young readers and teach them about conservation, environmentalism, death, and love. Many heavy topics are packed into this one quick read. I would recommend that everyone, both young and old, pick this up and read it.
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This was the most adorable and heartwarming story I read in a while, and the art is fantastic! I wish there was more of it. Finished it dying to read everything Katie O'Neill has ever worked on :)

A cute children's comic about family and doing good for your community with a strong environmental message. Lana returns to her old hometown with her dad to help out her aunt after a storm devastates the coastal community. There, she discovers a small, sea-horse like creature (and aquicorn) and learns that there is a community living in the reef-- something her aunt knows all too well since she was close to its ruler many years ago. But overfishing and pollution have damaged the reef, and if something doesn't change the reef will die and with it the town that relies on the reef to act as a storm break. Neither of those things is going to happen if Lana has anything to say about it.

This is the third comic by Katie O'Neill I've read and each of them is equally cute and uplifting. I really appreciated the message about needing to respect and protect our environment-- not only for its own sake but for ours as well. The illustrations were adorable as always, and I think everyone who reads this is going to want an aquicorn for themselves. Overall: cute, short, and sweet, with an important message.

I fell in love with Miss O'Neill's Tea Dragon Society graphic novel earlier this year. Her art style is soft and fanciful, and her storytelling is magnificent.

The story opens with a girl named Lana and her father returning to the seaside village where Lana was born to help her Aunt Mae and the villagers recover from a storm. Lana loves the ocean, and the looming return to the city saddens her; after all, the sea is where she feels closest to her dead mother.

When Lana finds an injured seahorse in a tidepool, she takes it back to her Aunt's house to care for him. She doesn't realize that her act of kindness is noticed by the Acquicorns who live in the reef, until full-grown Acquicorn seahorses start to bring Lana possessions that were lost to the sea during the storm to return to the villagers. But then one day, the Aquicorns bring a treasure to Lana that she takes to Mae, hoping that Mae knows who the treasure belongs to. Mae is stunned, because this treasure was something that once belonged to her.

Accompanied by a powerful storyline of love and friendship, Miss O'Neill discusses the impact of humans on the environment in a kid-friendly way, opening up for conversations about how humans can be self-sufficient and provide for themselves, their families, and their communities while also respecting and protecting the environment, ensuring that their home is still beautiful and strong for future generations.

Also, there are mermaid unicorns. What is not to love about mermaid unicorns?

A cute, quick, and lighthearted read with a good environmental message! Definitely will be looking to add this to our juniors collection!