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Your Island

Jon Klassen

From the incomparable Jon Klassen, 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 focusing 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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Publish Date: Feb 4th, 2025
  • Pages: 24
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 5.20in - 6.90in - 0.50in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781536230819
  • Recommended age: 02-05
  • Categories: Bedtime & DreamsConcepts - GeneralImagination & Play

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About the Author

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 Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author and illustrator of The Rock from the Sky and The Skull, and the illustrator of 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.

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Praise for this book

Sure to spark the imagination and brimming with whimsy, this deceptively simple bedtime story makes readers an active participant in the process of constructing an entire little world. For children yearning for an island of their own, deadpan delights await in this tale of somnolent creation
--Kirkus Reviews (starred reviews)