"novel has won a number of prizes including: Small Island (novel) Small Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy. It was adapted for television in two parts by the BBC in 2009, and is being adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson. The novel is based on four main characters: Hortense, Queenie, Gilbert and Bernard and the story is told from each of their points of view. Its main plot is set in 1948 and focuses on the diaspora of Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic hardship on their own ""small island,"" move to England, the Mother"
"The Little Island (book) The Little Island is a book by Margaret Wise Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Released by Doubleday in 1946, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1947. It describes the four seasons as experienced by a little island. 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."" A little island in the ocean changes as the seasons comes and go -- spring and summer bring flowers, seals, and birds,"
"Island (short story collection) Island is a book of short stories by Alistair MacLeod, first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. The book collects all of the short stories published in MacLeod's earlier collections, ""The Lost Salt Gift of Blood"" and ""As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories"", as well as two previously unpublished stories. The volume was published because the success of MacLeod's 1999 debut novel ""No Great Mischief"" revived interest in MacLeod's prior work, which was largely out of print by this time. In 2018 Filmmakers Tom Gentle and Rupert Clague adapted ""In The Fall"""
"mainland across the sea. The weather affects the sea, the island, and the mainland alike as do the tides. The story is strengthened by what children choose to read the book and have opportunities to share scientific facts, spiritual connections, and to explain the mutual dependency that occurs in nature. The Little Island (book) The Little Island is a book by Margaret Wise Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Released by Doubleday in 1946, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1947. It describes the four seasons as experienced by a"
"books, I was inspired to do something similar in Asia (some might say rip him off! Luckily, Bill Bryson doesn't say that!)"". Notes from a Small Island Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book on Great Britain by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 1995. Bryson wrote ""Notes from a Small Island"" when he decided to move back to his native United States, but wanted to take one final trip around Great Britain, which had been his home for over twenty years. Bryson covers all corners of the island, observing and talking to people from as"
"The Little Island The Little Island is a 1958 British animated short film directed, produced, and animated by Richard Williams. It was his first film. Self-financed, it was a half-hour philosophical argument without words. It won the 1958 BAFTA award for Animated Film. The film features three men who each only believe in one thing: one in Good, one in Truth, and one in Beauty. They cast themselves onto a small island where they sit next to each other. Many days pass, and they begin to express themselves. It starts in small ways, simply making noise. The three start to"
"A Small Place A Small Place is a work of creative nonfiction published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. A book-length essay drawing on Kincaid's experiences growing up in Antigua, it can be read as an indictment of the Antiguan government, the tourist industry and Antigua's British colonial legacy. The book, written in four sections, ""combines social and cultural critique with autobiography and a history of imperialism to offer a powerful portrait of (post)colonial Antigua."" In 1493 Christopher Columbus was on his second voyage when he spotted an island. He named it Antigua after the saint Santa Maria de la Antigua."
"The Wind Off the Small Isles The Wind Off the Small Isles is a novella by Mary Stewart, first published in 1968. Unlike her other works, it is brief, at only 96 pages in hardcover. It was never published in the United States. Stewart's British publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, reissued it in 2016, for the first time in 40 years. Perdita works for children's writer Cora Gresham as secretary and personal assistant. Cora is writing about pirates on the Barbary Coast and wants to visit the Canary Islands. After hearing Perdita's description of the various islands, Cora decides on Lanzarote."
"Notes from a Small Island Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book on Great Britain by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 1995. Bryson wrote ""Notes from a Small Island"" when he decided to move back to his native United States, but wanted to take one final trip around Great Britain, which had been his home for over twenty years. Bryson covers all corners of the island, observing and talking to people from as far afield as Exeter in the West Country to John o' Groats at the north-eastern tip of Scotland's mainland. During this trip"
"The Little Book (Edwards novel) The Little Book is a New York Times best-selling novel by American writer Selden Edwards. Edwards began writing the novel in 1974, worked on it for over 30 years, and the manuscript was accepted by Dutton in 2007. In 1974, when he was a young teacher in California, author Selden Edwards started to write a novel. Over the next thirty years he toiled over the same manuscript – revising it, adding layers and complexity to the tale. Winters and summers, when his colleagues were on vacation and his family was outside enjoying Santa Barbara, Lake"
"to screen, choosing to shoot the film in Orkney, Scotland. Island (short story collection) Island is a book of short stories by Alistair MacLeod, first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. The book collects all of the short stories published in MacLeod's earlier collections, ""The Lost Salt Gift of Blood"" and ""As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories"", as well as two previously unpublished stories. The volume was published because the success of MacLeod's 1999 debut novel ""No Great Mischief"" revived interest in MacLeod's prior work, which was largely out of print by this time. In 2018"
"an Island governed on classless but Eugenic lines by physicians, who also serve as the culture's police force, applying scientific advances in medicine to predict accurately when and where individuals are about to commit crimes. This prefigures the use of the concept of precognition in the science-fiction short story ""The Minority Report"" published by Philip K Dick in 1956 and made into the film ""Minority Report"" directed by Steven Speilberg in 2002. Joseph Carne-Ross Joseph Carne-Ross (1846-1911) was a Portuguese-born physician and science-fiction author. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, being awarded an MD in 1882 entitled 'Observations"
"October Island October Island is a novel by American author William March, first published in 1952 by Little, Brown (in the United States) and Gollancz (in the United Kingdom). The book is not currently in print. While there were plenty of reviews (Roy S. Simmonds lists 29 in his ""William March: An Annotated Checklist""), many of them were quite negative; most of the negative reviews claimed the book was flat and uninteresting. In ""The New York Times Book Review"", Donald Barr complained that the characters were marionettes; John Betjeman, in the ""Daily Telegraph"", was even more critical: ""The book is"
"written simply, but it is empty, and there is really nothing beyond its simplicity. It is neither real nor fantastic."" Positive appraisal came from, for instance, Charles Poore, in ""The New York Times"", who praises March's ""novel of salt and savor"" full of ""quiet, uninsistent irony"" and his ""mordant undertones of commentary on what it truly means to be an outcast."" October Island October Island is a novel by American author William March, first published in 1952 by Little, Brown (in the United States) and Gollancz (in the United Kingdom). The book is not currently in print. While there were"
"Dr. Franklin's Island Dr. Franklin's Island is a young adult science fiction book by Ann Halam published in 2002. It is narrated in the first person. Loosely based on H.G. Wells' ""The Island of Dr. Moreau"", it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments. A plane to a research facility in Ecuador crashes in the ocean and the only survivors are three children: Semi Garson, the narrator; Miranda, a brave girl; and a boy called"
"Lois Lenski Lois Lenski Covey (October 14, 1893 – September 11, 1974) was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Beginning with the release in 1927 of her first books, ""Skipping Village"" and ""Jack Horner's Pie: A Book of Nursery Rhymes"", Lenski published 98 books, including several posthumous works. Her writings include children's picture books and illustrated chapter books, songbooks, poetry, short stories, an autobiography, ""Journey into Childhood"" (1972), and a number of essays about books and children's literature. Her best-known bodies of work include the ""Mr. Small"" series of picture books (1934–62); her ""Historical"""
"""Sakhalin Island (From Travel Notes)"". Chapter XXII was reprinted in a separate edition (with significant text reductions and amendments) from the digest ""Helping the Hungry"". Sakhalin Island (Chekhov) Sakhalin Island () is a book by Russian writer Anton Chekhov written and published (originally in parts) in 1891–1893. It consists of ""travel notes"" written after Chekhov's trip to the island of Sakhalin in summer and autumn of 1890. The book is based on writer's personal travel experience, as well as on extensive statistical data collected by him. In the opinion of some researchers, the genre of this book was influenced by"
"with Little Island, an imprint of New Island Books. She is a former co-editor of ""Bookbird"", the magazine of international children's literature organisation IBBY, and former editor of ""Inis"", published by Children's Books Ireland (CBI). She also teaches creative writing at Marino Institute of Education, and has held numerous Writers-in-Schools short-term residencies, with a particular emphasis on working with children with special needs. She has been writer in residence to Dublin City and the Irish Writers' Centre, to Waterford City, and the Church of Ireland College of Education; she is a former board member of CBI and was on the"
"The Island (Benchley novel) The Island is a novel by Peter Benchley, published in 1979 by Doubleday & Co. Blair Maynard, a divorced journalist in New York City, decides to write a story about the unexplained disappearance of yachts and other small boats in the Caribbean, hoping to debunk theories about the Bermuda Triangle. He has week-end custody of his preadolescent son Justin, and decides to mix a vacation with work, taking his son along. They fly from Miami to the Turks and Caicos island chain but, while on fishing trip, are captured by a band of pirates. The pirates"
"Sakhalin Island (Chekhov) Sakhalin Island () is a book by Russian writer Anton Chekhov written and published (originally in parts) in 1891–1893. It consists of ""travel notes"" written after Chekhov's trip to the island of Sakhalin in summer and autumn of 1890. The book is based on writer's personal travel experience, as well as on extensive statistical data collected by him. In the opinion of some researchers, the genre of this book was influenced by ""The House of the Dead"" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and ""Siberia and Katorga"" by Sergey Maksimov (who is repeatedly mentioned in the text). Anton Chekhov returned"
"Little House on the Prairie The ""Little House"" Books is a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest (Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri) between 1870 and 1894. Eight of the novels were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers. The appellation ""Little House"" books comes from the first and third novels in the series of eight published in her lifetime. The second novel was about her husband's childhood. The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly"
"on ""Underwater"" and decided to put it to an end, switching to """". The book originally came with a 12-page appendix, with notes on the backgrounds of each of the stories in the collection. The 2006 edition of the book added four more pages of commentary to the appendix. The Little Man (comics) The Little Man: Short Strips 1980–1995 is a collection of short works by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, published by Drawn and Quarterly in 1998. It collects most of Brown's non-graphic novel short works up to that point, with the notable exception of his incomplete adaptations of"
"Little Children (novel) Little Children is a 2004 novel by American author Tom Perrotta that interweaves the darkly comedic stories of seven main characters, all of whom live in the same suburban Boston neighborhood during the middle of a hot summer. The novel received critical praise, spurring ""The New York Times"" to declare Perrotta ""an American Chekhov whose characters even at their most ridiculous seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura."" The novel was featured on numerous ""Best Books of 2004"" lists—including those of ""The New York Times Book Review"", ""Newsweek"", National Public Radio, and ""People"" magazine. In"
"The Last Island The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Alison Watt, first published in September 2002 by Harbour Publishing. In the book, the author chronicles her return to Triangle Island, a bird sanctuary off the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Watt spent four months studying tufted puffins with her mentor Anne Vallee, returning 16 years later after Vallee's death. ""The Last Island"" is written in ""beautiful language combined with watercolour paintings"" with the power to ""transport the reader to the island"". ""The Last Island"" received the ""Stephen Leacock Memorial"
"who lives alone on the island and dislikes children. He eventually warms to their babies, and they enjoy his company and his useful craftsmanship. Finally, the girls are rescued on Christmas Day, after a storm, and all the babies are returned to their parents. They miss the Friday. Baby Island Baby Island is a children's novel by Carol Ryrie Brink, first published in 1937. It resembles ""Robinson Crusoe"" in that the protagonists Mary and Jean are stranded on a desert island – but with four babies. The novel was republished many times over the next several decades. The book begins"
"Only two days after arriving there, Cora decides she wants to buy a house. While driving around the island they reach Playa Blanca and Cora sees just the house she is looking for. She sends Perdita to ask who owns it. Perdita, after getting no answer at the front door, meets Michael in the grounds who is supervising building work. There is a mention of Julian Gale from Stewart's earlier novel, ""This Rough Magic"". The Wind Off the Small Isles The Wind Off the Small Isles is a novella by Mary Stewart, first published in 1968. Unlike her other works,"
"from her friend's handyman) and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. (Weisgard was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1946, and he won the 1947 Medal, for ""Little Lost Lamb"" and ""The Little Island"". Two more of their collaborations appeared in 1953 and 1956, after Brown's death.) ""The Little Fisherman"", illustrated by Dahlov Ipcar, was published in 1945. ""The Little Fur Family"", illustrated by Garth Williams, was published in 1946. Early in the 1950s she wrote several books for the Little Golden Books series, including ""The Color Kittens"", ""Mister Dog"", and ""Scuppers The Sailor Dog."" While at Hollins she was briefly"
"would have been nice to hear a few more squawks from his pet parrot"", and praised the action. Treasure Island (2012 miniseries) Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel ""Treasure Island"" (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson. The screenplay was written by Stewart Harcourt, produced by Laurie Borg and directed by Steve Barron. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1 & 2 January 2012. Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) discovers a map to a legendary island of treasure belonging to the infamous Captain Flint (Donald Sutherland) and"
"The Land of Little Rain The Land of Little Rain is a book written by American writer Mary Hunter Austin. First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and otherwise. ""The Land of Little Rain"" has been published six times. The first publication was in 1903 by Houghton Mifflin. Subsequent publications include a 1950 abridged version with photographs by Ansel Adams (also by Houghton Mifflin), a 1974 illustrated version by E. Boyd Smith published by University of New Mexico Press, a 1988 edition with an introduction by"
"Ellis Island (miniseries) Ellis Island is a television miniseries, filmed in the United Kingdom, broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 19th century until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. ""Ellis Island"" highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons,"
"by Dibdin. Charles Dickens quotes from Dibdin's patriotic song ""The Tight Little Island"" in ""Little Dorrit"": Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say,<br> ""If ever I lived upon dry land.<br> The spot I should hit on would be little Britain!""<br> Says Freedom, ""Why that's my own little island!""<br> Oh, it's a snug little island!<br> A right little, tight little island,<br> Search the globe round, none can be found<br> So happy as this little island.<br> The song was published posthumously in 1841 in ""Songs, Naval and National, of the Late Charles Dibdin"", a collection arranged by Thomas Dibdin with sketches"
"Benerson Little Benerson Little is an American author, primarily of non-fiction, focusing on naval history, in particular, piracy and privateering in the 17th to early 18th centuries, including the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean. Little has also established himself as an expert, more broadly, on these and other various types of ""sea rovers"" over history, including through to the present, and has authored several books related to these subjects. He has also applied his expertise to a variety of artistic and commercial productions, including for the ""Black Sails"" (2014-) television series, and for the modern board game, ""Blood"
"Island (novel series) Island is a novel trilogy by Canadian author Gordon Korman. The books are set in contemporary times and designed for young teenagers. The series consists of: In Guam, six kids are assembling for a reform programming called ""Charting a New Course"" (CNC), all sent there by their parents to build character for certain reasons. They meet Captain Cascadden and the first mate Mr. Radford and set sail on the Pacific on the CNC schooner the SS ""Phoenix"". After a while, they receive news that a freak storm (possibly a hurricane) has turned their way and are forced"