The Island

When the people of the Island discover a man and a tattered raft on their beach, they're reluctant to take him in. He doesn't look like them! But they can't send him back to the sea where he'll surely perish. Instead, they put him aside - but even that doesn't solve their problem. In the morning the people of the island found a man sitting on the shore, where fate and the ocean currents had set him and his frail raft in the night. When he saw them coming towards him, he rose to his feet.He was not like them. This internationally acclaimed, award-winning picture book is astonishing, powerful and continues to be searingly relevant.'Starkly illustrated ... brilliant and haunting...' - Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian.