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This picture book, inspired by a memoir by Rockwell Kent III, concerns nine months in 1918 that he and his father spent on Fox Island off the coast of Alaska with a single frontiersman for a neighbor. The spare, evocative narrative reveals Rocky's adventurous pleasures as well as occasional fears. Attractive colored woodcuts, appropriately styled like Rocky's father's art (painter Rockwell Kent), illustrate the story.