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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
Beautiful is the word to describe this book. Following the seasons and weather patterns and visitors, The Little Island focuses on a little island filled to the brim with nature. Each painted illustration is amazingly detailed, mimetic to the descriptive text. This is sure to captivate children thanks to the illustrations alone, making it great for reading out loud to groups. As a Caldecott winner, this would be perfect for any library for its artistic merit alone. Everything about it works well together, and it shows. Great for grades 1-4.
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This would've gotten a 3-star rating but the illustrations bumped it up. I positively love them and this little story of a year in the life of an island. A great lapsit for an inquisitive preschooler.
This charming story shows a little island and its inhabitants from spring into summer. A kitten comes to visit and engages the island in a conversation about its "island-ness" - the island is connected to the earth in a way the kitten isn't. Vivid watercolors showing native plants, animals, and birds pair with text on the facing page.
The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
Audio version so I am not seeing the colorful pictures.
Setting: the small island where the water comes up and out, the wind, the sun, the animals sounds and birds.
Flowers and sea creatures-spring has come. Now it's summer and other animals come to stay there for a few months.
Very descriptive details you can picture them in your mind. Like how the kitten understands the big secret of how the island is one part of the earth.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Audio version so I am not seeing the colorful pictures.
Setting: the small island where the water comes up and out, the wind, the sun, the animals sounds and birds.
Flowers and sea creatures-spring has come. Now it's summer and other animals come to stay there for a few months.
Very descriptive details you can picture them in your mind. Like how the kitten understands the big secret of how the island is one part of the earth.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
This book follows the little island and how the seasons change, storms, night and day. People with a dog come to visit the little island. The illustrations are beautiful and interesting to look at. Each page there is something new to discover about the new island. It felt like the island itself was telling the story which has a very unique idea and perspective is was. It allows the reader to dream a little about what an island would have and what it would feel. The illustrations were my favorite part of the book because every page had something different or new to discover about this island.
The illustrations in this story were absolutely beautiful. This book is about an island and how it goes through all the different seasons and meets many different creatures of the sea and air. One day a kitten arrives on a sailboat with a couple and meets the Island. The kitten begins talking with the Island about how small it is and says that it is different from the rest of the world and therefore not part of the world because it's not connected to land. Island then challenges the kitten to go speak with the fish and a fish invites the kitten to go beneath the water to see how "all land is one land under the sea". The kitten obviously can't go swimming in the sea so the fish says the kitten "...must take it on faith" what it tells them. The kitten believes the fish and the kitten moves on, along with time itself, and the island is content and happy to be a part of the world as well as a world of it's own. Deep.
You can tell that the pictures are created with paint. Using paint makes the images come alive. Using paint also allows the colors to blend together, creating images that are completely natural. Any pictures of the water are exquisite, because of their multi-dimensional nature.
According to my copy, it was written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. The whole part about the cat was just strange, and I didn't think the illustrations were Caldecott-worthy. Oh well.