Book Description
for Island Boy by Barbara Cooney
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The youngest of twelve children in a family of settlers, Matthias grows up and grows old on a small island off the coast of New England. Cooney's luminous gouache paintings depict details of 19th century island life. (Ages 4-8)
CCBC Choices 1988. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988. Used with permission.
