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The Disappearing Island

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The Diasappearing Island by Corrine Demas is the story of a nine year old girl. On the little girls ninth Birthday, here grandmother gives here a perfect sand dollar saying that they will sail to the disappearing island. An Island the grandmoher visited as a child. This is a beautiful book with stunning water color illustrations by Ted Lewin.

Based on actual events, this story is told by Grandmother to 9 year old Carrie, as they picnic on the remains of sunken Billingsgate Island, now visible only at low tide. Grandmother gives Carrie a sand dollar she collected on the island when she was Carrie's age. Carie collects a brick from the original lighthouse as proof that the island existed (for when she passes down Grandmother's oral history to her future granddaughter about the island that used to be). Illustrations by Ted Lewin, who won Caldecott Honor for "Peppe, the Lamplighter". Interesting author's note relates Billingsgate Island's fate to the sinking of Atlantis.

this book has beautiful pictures and the writing is very realistic the disapearing island really makes you want to be there at the beach finding all those treasures

This book had a very interesting plot. It also was illustrated very well. The book lost my attention. You could use the book to teach children about erosion. The book seemed to be very monotone and was hard to connect with. I would not choose this book to read to my class because it has no character deapth beyond the fact of the eroding island.