Your Island
A stylish first board book, perfect to gift babies and toddlers aged 0-3 from Jon Klassen, bestselling creator of I Want My Hat Back
Blending dry, subtle humour with minimalist artwork and an engaging bedtime story, adults and babies will love this brilliantly quirky board book by international bestseller Jon Klassen!
"Young children will enjoy the simple and straightforward way this book is written, while adults will appreciate the deadpan humour." The Scotsman on Your Farm
"A comforting board book about imagination and safe spaces from the legendary author of I Want My Hat Back that creates a charming forest from a handful of familiar objects." Waterstones on Your Forest
With 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.
A perfect story for young explorers, kids learning their first words and as a bedtime read-aloud, Your Island is a must-have introduction to reading for a new baby, new parents or to gift at baby showers and birthdays.
Discover more of Your Places:
Your Farm
Your Forest
Collect Your Things:
Your Truck
Creators
Jon Klassen is the creator of the Your Places board book series, including Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island, and the Your Things board book series, including Your Truck and Your Horse. He is the author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestselling 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 creator 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.
Reviews
In a new series of bedtime board books for children ages 2-5, he has kept the dry humor but skipped the darkness, and the result is pure delight.
The Wall Street Journal
For 2- to 5-year-olds, where in simple, rhythmic words, Klassen chronicles a given setting and items you find there over the course of a day.
The Strategist
This book is quietly clever. Its repetition allows for pattern recognition, and the visual cumulative-storytelling subtly reinforces concepts, but, most importantly, it all serves to create a place for the tot perusing its pages to let their imagination run free.
Booklist (starred review)
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 review)
Klassen has crafted three unassuming master classes in picture-book making for the youngest listeners/viewers.
The Horn Book (starred review)
