This was such a cute read and the art was amazing! I especially loved how it dealt with an important topic such as climate change and how the message was that we definitely have to pay more attention to our environment and have to take care of our oceans and that even small things can already make a big difference.

This was a precious and magical graphic novel with the cutest art style. I really enjoyed the focus on the environment and the effects of climate change and especially the way the author addressed wastefulness. Seemingly small steps can go a long way, even if you might not be able to directly see their effects! I loved that we got to see different types of strong women - both the physically strong (like Mae) and women who stand up for their convictions (like Aure and Lana). The subtle f/f romance was a nice bonus as well!

"Unable to rely on the adults in her storm-ravaged seaside town, a young girl must protect a colony of magical seahorse-like creatures she discovers in the coral reef.

From the award-winning author of Princes Princess Ever After and The Tea Dragon Society comes Aquicorn Cove, a heartfelt story about learning to be a guardian to yourself and those you love.

When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a big storm, Lana remembers how much she’s missed the ocean—and the strong, reassuring presence of her aunt. As Lana explores the familiar beach, she discovers something incredible: a colony of Aquicorns, small magical seahorse-like creatures that live in the coral reef. Lana rescues an injured Aquicorn and cares for it with the help of her aunt, who may know more about these strange creatures than she's willing to admit. But when a second storm threatens to reach the town, choices made many years ago about how to coexist with the sea start to rise to the surface. Lana realizes she will need to find the strength to stand on her own, even when it means standing up to the people who she has always relied on to protect her."

Earlier this year I stumbled on Katie O'Neill's The Tea Dragon Society, and aside from now really wanting a tea dragon, I fell in love with her style. I follow her on Instagram and have to say I've been looking forward to this new book of hers! Now about that tea dragon...

Thank you to Net galley for providing me with an arc of this book!

This book was absolutely adorable with an important message about looking after our oceans.

The artwork is fantastic and the story had me hooked from the start - my o my teeny tiny gripe is that I'd have preferred more text and less text less pictures but that's just personal preference and it doesn't detract from the story at all!

This was an adorable graphic novel with such whimsical and expressive art that made me miss the sea even more than I did before!

It's a really easy read, quite a short story, but it has an important message and lesson. Although it seemed hurried at fast and not fully developed. The mix of fantasy is quite nice and it feels natural in spite of the lack of explanation.

The atmosphere is great and mainly created by the artwork, the use of colors and the character design pulled me in instantly. My only small complaint regarding the art/design is the lettering. It did not fit the art, it looked out of place and weird.

This was absolutely one of the most adorable books I've read! It was fun and easy to read and the art style was one of my favorite things about this one because I love art styles like these. I will definitely be recommending this to graphic novel lovers!

3.5
ADORABLE
Aquicorn Cove is a lovely book about how even a small town can make a huge damage on the sea, but is also a book about diversity, caring for the sea, loss, caring for the people around you, romance, etc.
I loved that the story talks about caring for the sea because it's not a common topic in books but it's important to learn about this. And, I don't know if I understood well but I loved that the author included diverse characters, not only poc but lgbt.
Finally, the illustrations were soo pretty and cute and the story was very heartwarming <3.

Katie O’Neill has created another absolutely perfect in every way graphic novel with Aquicorn Cove. Much like her previous graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society this book is full of gentle sweetness, and the kind of pure goodness that is so lacking from our world today. Not only that the quiet lessons this book has to teach us are there for readers of all ages and are important beyond words.
In Aquicorn Cove we meet Lana, a young girl traveling back home to her island home to help her Aunt Mae after a severe storm (guessing hurricane) has torn apart the island and caused severe damage. Lana and her father have been gone for a while after her father wanted to leave the island when a similar storm claimed the life of his wife and Lana’s mother. During the clean up of the storm’s destruction Lana discovers a cute seahorse like creature that is very sick and injured by the storm. Over the next few day more of these creatures come to see Lana bringing her lost items from the sea. Lana then learns about a secret place under the sea where these creatures live from her Aunt, but they are dying along with the coral reef. According to their leader Mae the village has the ability to change their habits and make small changes even though they are a small village to save Aquicorn Cove. The question is will they make the small changes, or go on believing that small actions don’t have huge catastrophic consequences.
This book is beautiful in its message and in its pictures. The drawings really bring depth and beauty to a story that will really fill you with emotion. Of course the main theme of the book is taking care of our planet and even small actions can have a negative impact. Real world topics such as pollution, over fishing the seas, and global warming are not shied away from and I love that. I also love that Katie O’Neill touches on depression and what that can look like. She let’s the juvenile reader know that other people have feelings like this and it is okay to give yourself the time you need to feel whole again. I honestly don’t think I have ever read a book by any author in any format who writes in such a gentle and authentic way that Katie O’Neill does all the while giving her books elements for fantasy and whimsy. I can not wait to see what she creates next. I am already there for it! FIVE STARS.

Aquicorn Cove is a lovely, whimsical graphic novel with a vibrant art style and meaningful message about the environment and the sea and keeping them protected as well as a wonderful message about grief and moving on.

There's a wonderful and heartwarming F/F romance that I was so glad to see. And the diversity of the characters on the pages was amazing to see.

Overall I highly recommend this magical story about protecting our environment and finding strength after facing struggles.

I’ve always loved stories with important messages and this is one of them.

Lana lost her mother in a storm on the sea. Lana’s father decided to not come back often to the places in which his bride died, a beautiful village on the coast, near a reef. After a tempest, they decided to come back to help the population to reconstruct everything.

When Lana and her father arrive at the village, they find Mae, the sister of Lana’s mother, a fisher and a sea lover. She’s trying to reconstruct the home and helping the village people with vegetables and fishing. However, her efforts cannot do much more, because another storm is coming. She decide to take the ship to save someone who is isolated, but then Lana and the others cannot find her anymore on the radio frequencies.

In the meantime, Lana discovers a beautiful animal suffering from injuries caused by ocean pollution. She takes care of this little “sea horse”, making all the efforts to help him/her in recovering.

There is a beautiful page, only one, in which Lana thinks of her mother, and the reader can feel all the grief and the pain of this lost. There’s also another page with a good representation of what can be considered depression. These images impressed me with their clarity and their emotional impact.

During the storm, Lana asks to the sea to save Mae, and someone helps her. There is a secret population in the water, the aquicorns. They are beautiful creatures, but the ocean pollution is killing them and their place, the reef. The reef has always helped the human village during the storms, but The injuries stopped this important passage. On the other hand, not only the plastics in the sea are bad, but the fishers started fishing more and more animals, killing the ecosystem of the area. Killing the reef and the aquicorns.

Lana and Mae have a wonderful connection with aquicorns’ people, but the ocean pollution by plastics and the “industrial” fishing are ruining all the interaction between humans and nature. I think this is the main message of this book. If you want to live in a better world, you need to learn to take only what you need, not more. Nature has her time.

As I said, I liked the ecological message and the sections about lost and depression. I also loved the colors, bright and powerful as the drawings, which are simple but impactful.

I appreciate this book because it can bring important thoughts to people, children and adults, about different themes, with a beautiful art style and a great story of love and nature.

I'm sorry, I tried to download this book and it wouldn't let me view it! Thank you for the opportunity though. I have put a hold on AQUICORN COVE at my library as well as Katie's other books and I can't wait to dive in and read them all!

It was very lively and heartwarming story. Absolutely loved the art and the atmosphere of the graphic novel.

I absolutely love the art style of this comic. It's cheerful, colorful, and inviting. The plot is simple, but it has a very valuable message within its pages. I only wish there had been more building upon the plot.

Another beautifully illustrated book by Katie O'Neill. I will add this book to my personal collection. O'Neill does a nice job on the messages of the book, environment. O'Neill is on my most read list.

This was a delight to read! I really loved the art style and the story was engaging. I do wish that the story was more fleshed out though, but that is a good thing. It means the story gripped me enough to want more. I also thought that the underlying theme was a bit on the nose sometimes, thankfully without being obnoxious about it. We need more stories like these that highlight the impact that we have on nature and the importance of our choices. Overall, a super cute story!

Aquicorn Cove is the story of Lana, a young girl who visits her aunt with her father in the wake of a storm which has devastated her aunt’s village. While there she befriends an unusual sea creature and learns more about her aunt’s past, all while learning to cope with the loss of her mother. .This is an environmentalist fable, a slice of life story, and a come of age tale.

It would be hard to review Aquicorn Cove without mentioning famed Dr. Seuss book, The Lorax. Much like The Lorax, Aquicorn Cove asks its central characters to examine the impact their actions have on the environment, and like The Lorax this is achieved with the aid of a magical creature who asks the human character to see the error of their ways.

Where this book stands out however, is in its emotional core. Far from being the greedy cliches of other environmentalist works, the human characters in this book have a clear, sympathetic reason for why they are doing what they are doing, despite the damage it is doing to the world on which they depend. This isn’t a tale of unchecked avarice, but of people simply trying to do the best they can to survive in a changing world. It isn’t a loss of profits they fear, but the loss of their homes, and their way of life. There are no villains here, and the book is all the richer for it. The sympathetic nature of the human cast allows the readers to root for these characters and hope they can find a way forward, even if it means that something has to change.

The environmentalist message at the heart of of Aquicorn Cove is backed up by a story line very personal to the character of Lana. Although an exact time frame is never given for when Lana lost her mother, it is clear that her loss still affects both Lana and her father very deeply. Lana is at a point where she is starting to find her place in the world, and she is becoming more and more aware of just what the loss of her mother means as she grows. This is a loss the character feels more keenly now that she is back at her mother’s home, and spending time with her aunt Mae, who in many ways takes on the role of mother figure.

Without going into specifics, the seemingly separate story strands of the concerns of the village, and Lana’s personal feelings of loss do come together in a way that is not only satisfying from a storytelling point of view, but also deeply touching. The culmination of the journey of the village as a whole is also the culmination of Lana’s journey, and the lessons that have been learned by the characters over the course of the book are perfectly encapsulated in how the lessons the village learns and the lessons Lana learns converge.

Katie O’Neill’s beautiful writing is matched perfectly by her illustrations. Aquicorn Cove features soft colouring which works perfectly with the expressiveness of the line art to capture the mood of every see, be it the wonder of the sea, Lana’s moments of joy or sadness, or the terror of the storms that befall the village. There are no sharp lines and the book feels all the richer for it.

Aquicorn Cove is a beautiful book. Not only is it visually stunning, but O’Neill deftly combines ideas of personal and communal tragedy into a story about accepting the past and learning to let go so that you can move on into the future. O’Neill seamlessly integrates these different elements into a book which highlights the consequences of our actions, not with judgement, but with love.

She finds a baby Aquicorn that has been injured and she works on making it well. She doesn't realize that her aunt visited with them in the past. She was asked to slow the fishing in their area but refused to do it.

Oni Press and Net Galley let me read this book for review. It will be published the 16th of October.

When her niece visits the cove and hears their plea to stop using plastic nets, she adds her voice to theirs. Her Aunt agrees and they go back to their hand tied nets.

Taking too much from the ocean is not good. There has to be enough for reproduction and to feed the other fish and animals that live off the fish. Otherwise species die. There is a good lesson here.

What a beautiful book the illustrations were incredible the colour brought such a light hearted vibe to the story while still talking about a serious issue in nature. I would definitely recommend. 💜

I loved it!!!!
A really cute story with an important message!!!
I loved the drawings, they are getting better and better in each book of this author!!!!
I wonder if maybe someday the story will continue...

What a beautiful way to teach children about appreciation of the sea that provides us with so much. I am big on respecting nature and if you take you give. This is the message that I felt this book gave. It is also the story of Lana a little girl who lost her Mom. was trying to cope with that and take care of her Dad. She needed to go to her Aunt Mae to refresh and have someone take care of her for a bit. The illustrations were well done even in comic book form and the Aquicorns were magical. I do believe beacause this book is very emotional that it should be for age 8+. I really don't think younger children would understand the meaning and emotional aspect of it.
I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion.