The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Pasquet, Jacques

My Wounded Island

32 pp. | Orca | August, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4598-1565-0 $19.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4598-1567-4

(3) K-3 Translated by Sophie B. Watson. Illustrated by Marion Arbona. In this pensive climate-change story from the perspective of a young Iñupiat girl living on a small Alaskan island, the rising ocean is embodied as a sea monster bent on devouring the girl's traditional wintry homeland. With splatters, swirls, and other stormy patterns, Arbona's art adeptly visualizes the story's focus: the girl's worries about what will happen to her family and home. Glos.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey