The Little Island is a book by Margaret Wise Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard.

The book is lyrically written, an example being: "Winter came/ and the snow fell softly/ like a great quiet secret in the night/ cold and still."

A little island in the ocean changes as the seasons comes and go -- spring and summer bring flowers, seals, and birds, and days and nights.

The kitten catches a fish and demands, on pain of being eaten, to know how the island is part of the bigger land.

The images create a mood of the perpetual essence of nature, and our connections to one another through the blue-green and grey color palette.