This is an outstandingly beautiful picture book. I was giving a reading today, with a bunch of other authors - it being National Flash Fiction Day in NZ - and the event was in a bookshop and I got there early to browse. And I saw this, and I didn't read it really because it's a wordless picture book, but I gaped at it from beginning to end and when I was finished I put it back on the shelf for all of three seconds before snatching it back, because I simply couldn't bear the idea of going home without it.

It's a very simple story. A girl, her dad, and their dog are shipwrecked on an island which is not an island (see cover). The giant turtle takes pity on them, supporting them until they come across a boat that can rescue them. It's the start of a beautiful friendship and so on, but I don't even care about that so much when the illustrations are this astonishing. They're filled with colour and wonder and are just so immediately delightful the whole thing is impossible to resist.