The Little Island | Margaret Wise Brown, 1946
Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island, 1946 / Illustrator: Leonard Weisgard
“There was a little Island in the ocean.
Around it the winds blew
And the birds flew
And the tides rose and fell on the shore.
Clouds passed over it
Fish swam around it
And the fog came in from the sea
and hid the little Island
in a soft wet shadow.”
Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island, 1946
“The morning was very quiet
on the Island
with only the spiders sailing their webs
against a gentle wind.”
Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island, 1946 / Illustrator: Leonard Weisgard
“Nights and days came and passed
And summer and winter
And the sun and the wind
And the rain.
And it was good to be a little Island.
A part of the world
And a world of its own
All surrounded by the bright blue sea.”
Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island, 1946
Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island, 1946 / Illustrator: Leonard Weisgard
“What’s that?” said the cat– “Faith.”
“To believe what I tell you about what your don’t know,” said the fish.”
Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island, 1946 / Illustrator: Leonard Weisgard
