There is something about an island that makes a child want to know everything about it at once. This one gathers twenty of them, from the windswept cliffs of Baffin Island, where Inuit knowledge has kept communities going for generations, to the volcanic peaks of Hawai'i, each told partly in the words of someone who lives there. Alice Albinia is a historian, and it shows in how much history she fits in without it ever feeling like a lesson, while Helen Cann's illustrated maps are the kind children pore over and read aloud from. A good book for a curious reader, a map lover, or anyone taken with the idea of faraway places.

• 64 pages
• 10" x 12"
• Ages 7+