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Island Storm

Island Storm

by Brian Floca and Sydney Smith
Hardback
Age range: 4 to 8 years old Publication Date: 03/06/2025

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In Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca and acclaimed illustrator Sydney Smith's thrilling picture book, young readers will experience the sheer power of a violent thunderstorm and the calm of its aftermath.

Can you tell when a storm is coming? Can you feel the wind coming and growing? Do you hear the branches bouncing together, hear the whispers of the wind through the leaves?

Join in the journey as two siblings bear witness to the steady start, thrilling apex, and gentle end of this island storm. They'll shelter soon, but first they want to feel it all.

Sydney Smith is the winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international distinction given to authors and illustrators of children's books, and his illustrations are fantastically textured and visually spectacular. Paired with Brian Floca's eloquent, rhythmic text, Island Storm is a multi-sensory experience that will amaze and delight readers. Children who fear thunder can take comfort in seeing it captured in the pages, while those who relish watching the sky crack open can enjoy battling this storm from the comfort of their homes.

ISBN:
9780823456475
9780823456475
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Age range:
4 to 8 years old
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-06-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Holiday House, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
279.4x203.2mm
Weight:
0.57kg
Brian Floca

Brian Floca is an award-winning author and illustrator of many acclaimed picture books. Locomotive won the Caldecott Medal 2014, and his books have additionally received four Robert F. Sibert Honor awards for distinguished informational books, an Orbis Pictus Award and Orbis Pictus Honor, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, and have been selected three times for the annual New York Times Best Illustrated Books list. Find him on Instagram as @brian_floca.

Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith has illustrated multiple children’s books, including Small in the City, Town Is by the Sea, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, The White Cat and the Monk, written by Jo Ellen Bogart, and the acclaimed Footpath Flowers, which was a New York Times Children’s Book of the Year and a winner of the Governor General Award for Illustration.

Born in Nova Scotia in Canada, Sydney now lives in Toronto with his wife and son.

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