ABOUT THIS BOOK

There is a little island in the ocean—and this book is about how it is on that little island, how the seasons and the storm and the day and night change it, how the lobsters and seals and gulls and everything else live on it, and what the kitten who comes to visit finds out about it.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Margaret Wise Brown, who also wrote under the pseudonym of Golden MacDonald, published more than 100 books for children.

Leonard Weisgard illustrated more than 100 children’s books.


AWARDS

WINNER 1947 - Caldecott Medal Winner