The Islanders take its inspiration from life in Cornwall and has been nominated for both The Holyer an Gof Award and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Every year Robbie and his family come to the same town for their holiday and every year they stay in Tamsin's house. This year Robbie and Tamsin make a special island on the beach, a secret place where only they can go. On their last night, just before the end of the holiday they creep out of the house to set sail in their small sailing boat 'The Islander'. The sails of the little boat fill with wind and before they know it, they have arrived at a magic place...

 

There are 38 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2011 by Mabecron Books Ltd .

Praise for Rebecca: "[Rebecca] Cobb's illustrations capture the joy of childhood" Sunday Times Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year.