Floating Island (novel)

Floating Island is a 1930 children's novel written and illustrated by Anne Parrish.

A China-doll family's shipwreck and adventure in the Floating Island are told in the novel in the simple and colloquial style.

A China-Doll family happily lives in a dollhouse at a toy shop reading books and dancing "The Waltz of the Dolls" with the piano accompaniment of Mrs. Doll.

One day, Henry purchases the dollhouse and the dolls for his niece, Elizabeth, and the dolls are wrapped, put inside a box, and sent to the tropics, where Elizabeth lives.

En route, the dolls wreck on a ship, and they drift to an uninhabited tropical island with their dollhouse.They gradually adapt to the island and become familiar with the native animals.