Your Island

(Board book)

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From the bestselling creator Jon Klassen, Your Island is one in a trio of companion board books for the youngest of children.

This is your sun.
It is coming up for you.

This is your palm tree.
It can go over by the sun.

With a minimal tableau of familiar objects and a gentle rhythm suited for reading aloud, an island and all its items a tent, a fire, a boat, a bird are assembled, ending with bedtime as the sun goes down. This is an island for a young child to have whenever they want to go there. One in a trio of board books focussing on safe spaces, comfort and imagination, Your Island signals both a departure for Jon Klassen and a story whose peculiar touches of whimsy stamp the book as iconically his.

Author Bio

Jon Klassen is the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling I Want My Hat Back, which won a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, and its companions This Is Not My Hat, which won a Caldecott Medal and a Kate Greenaway Medal, and We Found a Hat, named a Publishers Weekly Best Childrens Book of the Year. He is also the author and illustrator of The Rock from the Sky and The Skull, and the illustrator of How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney, Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Triangle, Square and Circle, all by Mac Barnett. Originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Jon Klassen now lives in Los Angeles.