{"id":532,"date":"2013-08-01T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:37:52","slug":"book-review-cup-magic-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Cup Magic Book Review (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MNZS-Cup-Magic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-551\" title=\"MNZS Cup Magic\" src=\"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MNZS-Cup-Magic-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>NZ Book Reviewer and contributor to the Australian Book Trade magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magpies.net.au\/\">The Source<\/a>, Trevor Agnew, writes:<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Man, did I feel proud to be a Kiwi.<\/em> The latest volume in the <em>My New Zealand Story<\/em> series is a boy\u2019s-eye-view of New Zealand\u2019s 1995 America\u2019s Cup yachting victory. When young Mike Lucas is sent to live with his grandparents, he thinks his parents are divorcing. In fact his mother, a sail-maker, and his father, a boat-builder, have been recruited for Team New Zealand\u2019s highly security-conscious America\u2019s Cup campaign. His grandparents introduce Mark into the world of yachting through fitting-out and sailing his father\u2019s old P-class dinghy. Thus the first part of Mark\u2019s fact-filled diary brings the reader up to date on New Zealand yachting history and personalities. His parents show him through the various workshops where the hulls and sails are being created, and Mike suggests the name <em>Black Magic<\/em> for the yacht.<\/p>\n<p>In Part 2, Mike goes with his parents to San Diego, California, and witnesses the intense preparations and key events in the qualifying races. He describes the yachting duels that culminate in <em>Black Magic<\/em>\u2019s triumph, and their joyous homecoming.<\/p>\n<p>Mike is an endearing and observant writer. Although his journal is probably a more heavily detailed account than a real 11-year-old would produce, it is good to remind a new generation of such crucial objects as New Zealand\u2019s lucky red socks.<\/p>\n<p>The usual Historical Note and collection of historic photographs are included. There are no maps or suggestions for further reading.<\/p>\n<table width=\"98%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Themes in this book:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Auckland<strong> <\/strong>city,<strong> <\/strong>NZ.<strong> \u00a0 <\/strong>Boats and ships.<strong> <\/strong>New<strong> <\/strong>Zealand-history.<strong> <\/strong>Sailing and \u00a0 sailors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Publisher: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.co.nz\">Scholastic NZ <\/a><\/td>\n<td><strong>Binding: \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Paper back<\/td>\n<td><strong>13 Digit ISBN:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>978 1 77543 112 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Book Reviewer and contributor to the Australian Book Trade magazine, The Source, Trevor Agnew, writes: Man, did I feel proud to be a Kiwi. The latest volume in the My New Zealand Story series is a boy\u2019s-eye-view of New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=532\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[36,37,34,31,35,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}