by William Steig

From the Author/Illustrator of Shrek, Rotten Island is being republished 40 years after it was first released, with an introduction by Quentin Blake.

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 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.

 William Steig was born in New York City in 1907 to a family of artists. Steig rose to fame when in 1930 his drawings began to appear in The New Yorker, where they remained a popular fixture for many decades. Steig published his first children's book in 1968, and won almost every award available for children's books including the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, and subsequently was elected the 1988 U.S. candidate for writing. Shrek, which was published in 1990, brought Steig to the big screen and breathed life into some of his most imaginative characters.

A National Maritime Museum Publication.

•  Hardback
• 34 pages
• ISBN: 9781906367053