The Disappearing Island

by Corinne Demas

Book Overview

"Can an island disappear?"Carrie wonders about the mysterious island that her grandmother plans to take her to on her ninth birthday, a place that is visible only at low tide and the rest of the time... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068980539X
• ISBN13: 9780689805394
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.6" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The Disappearing Island

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.

Disappearing Island

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.

The Disapearing Island

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