6/23/2023 0 Comments Author margaret wise brown![]() ![]() 'Then you will have to take it on faith', says the fish - 'to believe what I tell you about what you don't know." The fish then tells him "how all lands are one land under the sea." The cat realizes he has learned a great secret, which he loves, and lets the fish go before leaving the island. The kitten demands to be shown another way. The fish invites the kitten down into the water to see, which the kitten of course cannot do. The kitten catches a fish and demands, on pain of being eaten, to know how the island is part of the bigger land. When the kitten disputes the island's claim, the island suggests that it ask any fish. This kitten opines that the island is small and isolated however, the island retorts that it, like the kitten, is also a part of the world. One day a kitten visits the island with a family on a picnic. The book is lyrically written, an example being: "Winter came/ and the snow fell softly/ like a great quiet secret in the night/ cold and still."Ī little island in the ocean changes as the seasons comes and go - spring and summer bring flowers, seals, and birds, and days and nights. It describes the four seasons as experienced by a little island. ![]() Released by Doubleday in 1946, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1947. The Little Island is a book by Margaret Wise Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. ![]()
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