Author: Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator: Helen Sewell
Summary: 12-year-old Mary Wallace and her sister Jean, 10, are marooned on a desert island with three babies while en route to Australia to meet up with their father. They spend three months on the island with their little charges, until their eventual rescue. While there, they meet Mr. Peterkin, who has come to the island to escape "meddlesome young'uns," but who is softened and won over by the babies.
1937 Macmillan Company 172 pp
Reading Skill Level: 9-12
Reviewed by: Derri Smith, August 2006