My Island
$16.95
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Description
A young girl imagines a lovely island populated by thousands of birds, where she picnics with her animals, plays games, reads, and collects flowers. You too are welcome on this island, if you know how to dream. Gorgeous, colorful illustrations accompany this gentle yet impactful story that celebrates the imagination of young readers.
Painter and illustrator Seng Soun Ratanavanh lives in Paris, where she graduated from the School of Fine Arts. Her work includes the celebrated Time for Bed, Miyuki.
Stephanie Demasse-Pottier lives and works in France as a librarian specializing in children’s books. My Island is her first book to appear in English.
Stephanie Demasse-Pottier lives and works in France as a librarian specializing in children’s books. My Island is her first book to appear in English.
– New York Journal of Books”A charming ode to children and their endless creativity and inventiveness.”
– Avery and Augustine”The illustrations, rendered with watercolors, colored pencils, and red thread, are a riot of geometric patterns relying heavily on red, yellow, and bluish-green hues. Size and scale are upended in an Alice in Wonderland fashion. Originally published in French, the simple text is open-ended, allowing readers to spend time exploring the illustrations or their own daydreams.”
– School Library Journal”The child’s seriousness in orchestrating these island activities will make perfect sense to readers-they know imagining isn’t playtime. Pretending feels immensely personal, intimate even, and the child’s emotive brown eyes show this in their intensity and, at times, vulnerability. Visual accents make the protagonist’s tender age clear, as well as how extraordinarily dense, flamboyant, and boundless a very young child’s imagination can be. Watercolors, colored pencils, and stitched red thread (which appears as dotted lines incorporated into each illustration) create vivid pictures of this pretend place, where anything can happen. Readers will certainly make the leap and stay a while.”
– Kirkus Reviews
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| Dimensions | 0.375 × 10.25 × 10.25 in |
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| Subjects | JUV010000, picture books for kids, my island, my island kids book, picture books for children ages 3-5, picture books for preschoolers, picture books for kindergarten, kids books about imagination, imagination books |
