#762 of 1001 · September 1, 2022

Here is a look at The Island Light, one of three volumes in the Voyage to the Bunny Planet series by Rosemary Wells. Felix spends a miserable day getting sick at school and visiting the doctor. While sitting alone in bed without a goodnight kiss, he is spirited away to the Bunny Planet by the kindly Bunny Queen Janet, who shows him through a mystical arch and grants him the day he should have had. Felix finds himself on a dock in a gentle evening rain with his lighthouse-keeper father, bringing back groceries from the mailboat for a cozy night of pancakes, gingerbread, and card games. At midnight, he wakes up, happy and relaxed. Wells grants her protagonist’s wish in fantasy rather than reality, employing a startling textual shift from third-person prose to poignant rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter. Her art contrasts the dark isolation of Felix’s bedroom with the rich glow of the flames in the hearth and the lighthouse beacon. #voyage #bunny #planet #island #light #ship #lighthouse #book #books #childrensbooks #beautifulbooks #picturebook #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #picturebookillustrations #picturebookart #childrensbookillustration #childrensliterature #illustration #kidlit #kidsbooks #bookworm #booklover #booklovers #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #instabook #instabooks