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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1988-07
ISBN-13:9780590410960ISBN:0590410962
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13:9780385746403ISBN:0385746407
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780385746403ISBN:0385746407
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Picture Book. 12mo-over 6"-8" Tall Oblong. Newer reprint edition hard cover with dust jacket, FINE/FINE. Like new copy. Dust jacket in new mylar cover. Unpag., approx. 44pp. 1947 Caldecott Medal winner for Leonard Weisgard's illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Reader
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780385746403ISBN:0385746407
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN-13:9780385746403ISBN:0385746407
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"I really loved the beginning and ending of this book--a loving look at a little island as if told by a poet and naturalist. The seasons change, different flora and fauna cover the island, etc. The mid-section with the little kitten that comes to the island is just too didactic and out-of-place for me, though. The bit about the kitty being an island--yet the island being connected to the world--and about the meaning of faith--just don't seem to fit the rest of the story and seemed, dare I say it, just a bit odd. Of course, I appreciate the underlying message it just felt like two different stories and was a bit, um, odd. But, that is only my personal taste as I know this is a much-beloved story and the illustrations are definitely worthy of the award."
""No man is an island," said John Donne, and no island is an island either. In The Little Island, the Caldecott-award-winning book authored by Margaret Wise Brown, a little Island speaks to a black Kitten, and tells the Kitten that it, too, is connected to the earth, down under the sea. But, still, the sea is a barrier to those that walk on land. The Kitten can only visit the Island via boat, and returns to the mainland after spending some time with the Island and its creatures. The Island is connected yet separate.
Ms. Brown's book visits the Island in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, in fair weather and foul. She describes the plants growing on the island and the animals that live or visit there, and makes my heart ache with the beauty of it all.
Every time I read a book about an island or set on an island, I want to be there. I want to stand on the shore and dip my toes in the water and look back across the bay at the mainland. And that is what Ms. Brown's book so beautifully evokes: the desire to be alone and apart, and yet a part of everything surrounding. I don't suppose I'd really want to live alone on an island that is small enough to make me acutely aware of its island-ness, but I certainly would want to spend some time there, before returning to my family and home.
I must say a few words about Leonard Weisgard, the illustrator. The Caldecott is awarded yearly to the artist of the best picture book, so it is Mr. Weisgard who was awarded the Caldecott, not Ms. Brown. I love his drawings. They are beautifully simple, and yet each of his plants and and animals is immediately recognizable as having a distinct genus and species. There is no generalized "flower," but forget-me-nots and violets that grow on the pages of Mr. Weisgard's books."
"Learning about the little island from the island's perspective is a different approach here. The descriptions of plant and animal life through the seasons (and a storm--my favorite illustration in the book) are simple for young children to understand."
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