The Little Island

by Margaret Wise Brown

For ages 2-6 years

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The protagonist of this 1947 Caldecott Medal winner is a little island, and all of its plants and creatures: spiders and lobsters, seagulls, kingfishers, and seals. Brown's graceful prose takes the island and its inhabitants through the seasons. It was a world she knew well, from her own summers spent in a cabin on an island in Maine. When a small black cat arrives with its owners by sailboat in summer, its explorations and questions offer Brown the chance to meditate, in the simple and lovely language she is known for, on the notion that all parts of the world are connected to each other ("all land is one land under the sea"), and on the meaning of faith ("to believe what I tell you about what you don't know"). There's a deeper message here than in many children's stories, but it's not one that we want to paraphrase - read, and discover the magic yourselves!

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