Discover what life is like season by season when you're surrounded by the sea. See the ferry that brings people and supplies to the island and the fisherman preparing their nets for the summer fishing season. Learn about the significance of buoys, the workings of lobster traps, and the variety of boats you can see from the shore.
Gail Gibbons has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator, according to the Washington Post. Winner of the 2010 Regina Award, she has written and illustrated more than fifty books for Holiday House. She lives in Corinth, Vermont.
Whether she's in her solar house in Corinth, Vermont, or in her summer home on an island off the cost of Maine, Gail Gibbons lives surrounded by nature. It is her curiosity for how nature works that has led her into such a successful career as a children's book author and illustrator. Before creating chilren's books, she worked for NBC television. She has published fity titles with Holiday House. Visit her on the Web at www.gailgibbons.com.
Holiday House
Pub. Date: January 3, 2006
0.12" H x 8.92" L x 9.82" W
32 pages
Paperback