Elephant Island
Leo Timmers
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A lively visual story about making a home from mishaps. Its strongest pleasures are comic accidents, inventive machinery, expressive illustrations and the animals’ growing community.
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Leo Timmers
A lively visual story about making a home from mishaps. Its strongest pleasures are comic accidents, inventive machinery, expressive illustrations and the animals’ growing community.
R.M. Ballantyne
Expect a survival adventure led by three boys, with island exploration, natural history, outdoor living and encounters with danger. Its confident Victorian moral outlook is central rather than incidental.
Deborah Ellis
This is a tense, compassionate story about a child taking responsibility in a dangerous society. It combines family survival, Afghan history, women’s restricted freedoms and moments of hope, while leaving Parvana’s immediate future unresolved.