Cynthia Rylant

In pictures and rhyming text, a verse reassures the reader that life's familiar things, such as stars that shine and sleeping kittens, will continue as they always have.

The Islander is a book by the Newbery Medal winning author Cynthia Rylant, published in 1998 by Dorling Kindersley. It is the story of Daniel, whose parents have died; he goes to live with his grandfather on a remote gray island off British Columbia. Together they live an extremely lonely life, hardly talking to …