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y separately published work icon The Island single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 The Island
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Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon The Island John Heffernan , Peter Sheehan (illustrator), Gosford : Scholastic Press Scholastic Press , 2005 Z1201239 2005 single work picture book children's (taught in 1 units)

'On a beautiful island lives a tribe of people who don’t smile or laugh much. Only a small blind urchin notices the wonderful things on the seashore. He tries to share them with the tribe, but they don’t notice. One day a sea creature comes to the shore. Together, the boy and the sea creature play in the water. The people of the tribe warn the boy that it is a monster, but they change their minds when they hear him laughing. They join in. However, afraid that the sea creature will leave and they will lose the happiness they have found, the tribe capture it and put it in a small pool. The sea creature soon begins to fade and die. The boy rescues it and the people of the tribe are left behind, wondering if they will ever be happy again.' (Publication summary)

 		Australia Fair: Post-Federation Australian Literature University of Wollongong 2011 (Semester 1)
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