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A boy sails across the sea, looking at various objects through his spyglass, until he reaches an island where his dog is waiting for him.

Describes the way residents of a small island celebrate Christmas.

"While fishing and exploring a deserted South Seas island, the Alden children discover clues that they aren't alone"--

A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. When Elmer Elevator tells a stray cat about his dream of being able to fly, he learns of a captive dragon on Wild Island. The dragon has been forced by the jungle residents to serve as their shuttle across a wide river — and anyone who rescues the dragon from its cruel captors might be entitled to...

Harry and his boat become stranded on an island, where he discovers an egg which hatches into a strange lizard with wings.

A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.

The entire island is in an uproar when best friends Monkey and Elephant get into a fight.

When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.

Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

When he arrives on an island paradise, Napoleon the dog orders its friendly inhabitants to help him construct a big house that gradually takes over all of the available space.