Praise for Rotten Island

"Without question, the monster book of the year.Boston Globe

"Not since Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has there been such a glorious nightmare of a book.People

"Stupendous.The Philadelphia Inquirer

"As visually exciting a book as has ever been produced for children.The Detroit News

"What a glorious book! It bubbles, almost boils with color.Washington Post Book World

"A gorgeously colored picture book, full of monsters, mayhem and a take-it-or-leave-it message . . . about the redeeming power of Nature.Newsday

Autorentext

William Steig drew over 2,600 cartoons and 117 covers for the The New Yorker during his nearly fifty-year career. His children's books include the Caldecott Medal-winning Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and Shrek!, the basis for the animated film series.

Klappentext

What would happen if every creature on land and sea were free to be as rotten as possible? If every day was a free-for-all; if plants grew barbed wire; if the ocean were poison? That's life on Rotten Island. For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl (not to mention kick, bite, scratch, and play nasty tricks on each other), Rotten Island is paradise. But then, on a typically rotten day, something truly awful happens. Something that could spoil Rotten Island forever. Out of a bed a gravel on the scorched earth, a mysterious, beautiful flower begins to grow]š€š]

Zusammenfassung
For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl (not to mention kick, bite, scratch, and play nasty tricks), Rotten Island is paradise. But then, on a typically rotten day, something truly awful happens. Something that could spoil Rotten Island forever. Out of a bed of gravel on the scorched earth, a mysterious, beautiful flower begins to grow.