The Island of Grump, from multi-platinum songwriter Kenny Lamb, is a wonderfully illustrated lyrical tale with a strong message and a musical rhythm. The story focuses on character Gilbert, as he learns the consequences of what happens when he can't let go of his grumpiness—he finds himself a castaway from his friends, all alone on the metaphorical island of Grump!
Kenny Lamb delivers a powerful lesson to children through parents, while taking readers to a sweet and simple place, somewhere between Seuss and Silverstein, where poetry and the real world collect into pools of the imagination. This unique is sure to become an instant classic!
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- ISBN: 9781943978250
- File size: 6 KB
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Kirkus
June 15, 2016
A rhymed warning about the hazards of holding on to a snit.Lamb, a pop songwriter, describes the titular island in stilted verse: "The Island of Grump / is a far away place // Where no one is happy / Not one smile per face." He warns that it's hard to get off (because "the sea will scowl / and the sky will pout"), fun and friends are just memories at best, and lingering will result in being crowned a king "on a stump," ruling all alone. But partway through he reveals that he really has anger rather than grouchiness in mind, which Buckner inscrutably betokens with two toys, one broken, in the accompanying picture. In the digitally slick and unsubtle illustrations, a scowling lad with light skin rows his way to an island populated by frowning figures that resemble crosses between robots and tiki gods. There, he visualizes friends (one with very dark skin and hair) searching for him in vain and ends up clad in robe and crown, staring out to sea. A crabby-looking crab can also be spotted on most pages. The lack of emotional resolution (not to mention the writing) leaves this cautionary opus looking superficial next to the more therapeutic likes of Where the Wild Things Are or Hiawyn Oram and Satoshi Kitamura's Angry Arthur (1982). Keep rowing: there are islands aplenty with more to offer. (Picture book. 6-8)COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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