‘One morning, the people of the island found a man on the beach, where fate and ocean currents had washed his raft ashore. When he saw them coming, he stood up. He wasn’t like them.’ With spare,poetic text and menacing illustrations executed in a limited range of sombre colours, this picture book for older children by Armin Greder conveys a strong sense of drama and obliges readers to think about xenophobia and the consequences of an instinctive act of compassion. Issue-driven children’s books can be unappealingly preachy; not this one. Eloquent and passionate, ‘The Island’ is a picture book that poses questions rather than supplying answers.
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