![]() ![]() During the course of the evening the children learn the secret of how fog is made before returning safely home the next day. There are tall anthropomorphic rocks either side of a winding staircase with green skeletal arms clinging to the door at the top of the stairs where a wizened old man with floor-length white hair and a candle strapped to his forehead is waiting. The children realise this must be the mysterious Fog Island.Īs they climb out of their boat they are surrounded by surreal, mist-shrouded images. As darkness falls they find themselves drifting ashore. One day, while the siblings are out in their boat the weather changes they become enveloped in a storm and are swept out to sea by the strong waves. The children’s father makes them a small boat, known as a curragh, but warns them never to leave the bay and to steer clear of Fog Island because it is surrounded by treacherous currents, known by the locals as a doomed and evil place. ![]() ![]() The family is poor their father goes out fishing every day while their mother attends to the farm. Country of Origin: Switzerland Fog Island by Tomi Ungererīrother and Sister Finn and Cara live with their parents in a remote location “by the sea in the back of beyond”. ![]()
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