The editors at Harper Collins, on the other hand, didn't have any such reservations. "They weren't sure that anybody would want to read about a gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick." The success is a bit of vindication for McLeod MacKnight after Canadian publishers took a pass on her story.
Hundreds of students have taken McLeod MacKnight's special tour of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton since The Frame-Up came out. I like how it's like the paintings move in the book. "I think the tour is amazing and I really like the book," said Evy McLaughlin. "The book is really good," Koen Carr said after taking McLeod MacKnight's gallery tour late last month. "It's really interesting." She's had good reviews from the likes of the Wall Street Journal, whose critic described The Frame-Up as "tantalizing," "delicious," "clever" and "satisfying," and from the really tough critics, like Grade 5 students from Wendy Peters's class at Geary Elementary School. They begin a friendship that has massive ramifications for everybody in the gallery.Īmong her inspirations, McLeod MacKnight counts Scooby Doo cartoons, Harry Potter and the paintings on the wall of her living room. "One day Mona sticks out her tongue at a couple of obnoxious visitors and Sargent sees it." MacKnight says it's magical to her when her young readers see the painting for the first time. Students get their picture taken in front of William Orpen's portrait of Mona Dunn, one of the main characters in The Frame-Up. The other main character is a boy named Sargent Singer, the gallery director's son, named after John Singer Sargent, who painted McLeod MacKnight's favourite picture in the gallery, San Vigilio Lake Garda. "She's been stuck in a painting for a hundred years and she is bored out of her mind," said McLeod MacKnight. The main character is Mona Dunn, real-life daughter of Sir James Dunn, whose portrait was painted by William Orpen in 1915, when she was 13. Many of the characters in the book come from the Beaverbrook gallery's Masterworks exhibition. The story is based on the premise that all of the figures in original works of art are secretly alive. She considers it an honour when teachers ask her to give special tours of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, where the book is set. Its White Horse Inn figures in The Frame-Up. Students in Wendy Peters's Grade 5 class from Geary Elementary School watch intently, perhaps for signs of movement, as MacKnight discusses Merrymaking, by Cornelius Krieghoff.
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