Rotten Island

Author: William Steig
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879239602
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
What would happen if every creature on land and sea were free to be as rotten as possible? If every day was a free-for-all; if plants grew barbed wire; if the ocean were poison? That's life on Rotten Island. For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl, Rotten Island is paradise.

A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean

Author: Gary Buslik
Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides
ISBN: 9781609521455
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
"If you look at a map, you will see that the island chain known as the Caribbean, or, to confuse you, the West Indies, lies between Florida and South America and resembles a string of gems or possibly drool." And so begins author Gary Buslik's tale of tropical adventure. Each chapter of this often hilarious and sometimes poignant travelogue recounts another island-hopping, culture-clashing crisis that pits the homesick author against falling coconuts, hospitals that remove wrong organs, insects as big and dangerous as stealth bombers, ticket agents that put him on hold for hours, mysteriously calculated currency exchanges, over-proofed rum, livestock, singing Rastafarians, garbage-bin sex, peanut-crazed children, Idi Amin, flesh-eating monkeys, dentists, cricket, steel drum bands, and the French. Fortunately, even when making fun of his West Indian hosts, the curmudgeonly author's essential good nature and devotion to his wife twinkle through, and in the end his stubborn geocentricity gives way to a heartfelt appreciation of his island hosts.

The Dragon of Lonely Island

Author: Rebecca Rupp
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763616618
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Three children spend the summer with their mother on a secluded island where they discover a three-headed dragon living in a cave and learn what it means to be a Dragon Friend.

Staten Island Noir

Author: Patricia Smith
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617751294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Presents a collection of short stories featuring noir and crime fiction about Staten Island, New York, by such authors as Todd Craig, Linda Nieves-Powell, S. J. Rozan, and Patricia Smith.

Trouble in Bugland

Author: William Kotzwinkle
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920703
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
A quick-witted insect sleuth, patterned after Sherlock Holmes, displays his brilliant powers of deduction in solving five mysteries.

How to Live on an Island

Author: Sandy Gingras
Publisher: Down the Shore Publishing
ISBN: 9780945582571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
This charming illustrated gift book encourages us to live happily on simpler terms. We are reminded to ''float'' and ''make a splash,'' to ''ebb and flow'' and ''run with waves'' or ''laugh like a gull''; to ''sugar yourself with sand,'' to ''walk tender'' and to ''thank.'' This book by author/illustrator Sandy Gingras is the first of seven in her very popular and uniquely inspirational ''How To Live'' series.

The Art of William Steig

Author: Claudia J. Nahson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Presents a companion to the exhibition celebrating the works of William Steig.

The Rotten State of Britain

Author: Eamonn Butler
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
ISBN: 9781906142346
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Under Gordon Brown's leadership, Britain has achieved that sinking feeling without knowing exactly why things are so bad and how it happened so fast. This book analyses what went disastrously wrong and why it will continue to get worse under current policies.

Consolidated Tables of Duties for Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, in Great Britain and Ireland, Chargeable on Coasting Vessels

Author: Trinity House (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beacons
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description

Abel's Island

Author: William Steig
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466839171
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
William's Steig's Abel's Island tells the story of a mouse who gets swept away from his beloved wife—a truly timeless classic about life's simple pleasures. Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home, and a lovely wife, Amanda. But one stormy August day, furious flood water carry him off and dump him on an uninhabited island. Despite his determination and stubborn resourcefulness--he tried crossing the river with boats and ropes and even on stepping-stones--Abel can't find a way to get back home. Days, then weeks and months, pass. Slowly, his soft habits disappear as he forages for food, fashions a warm nest in a hollow log, models clay statues of his family for company, and continues to brood on the problem of how to get across the river--and home. Abel's time on the island brings him a new understanding of the world he's separated from. Faced with the daily adventure of survival in his solitary, somewhat hostile domain, he is moved to reexamine the easy way of life he had always accepted and discovers skills and talents in himself that hold promise of a more meaningful life, if and when he should finally return to Mossville and his dear Amanda again. Abel's Island is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1977 Newbery Honor Book. It was adapted to a short animated film directed by Michael Sporn in 1988.