Dad and Daughter adventures, impossible not to adore this.

In what appears to be a single-parent family story, this girl and her Dad are clearly like chalk and cheese, but also compliment each other so beautifully in a unit. Families will see themselves reflected in these two very different characters, and the role models here are wonderfully refreshing.

Matilda is the planner - the neat painter, the methodical cook, the busy bee. Her dad - he's more messy, unflustered. When Matilda decides they are going to look for treasure on their trip to the beach using the map she has, their two personalities clash and their paths diverge... will they come together again?

I enjoyed the clear way the author offers up the two very different personalities of Matilda and Dad. As well as being polar opposites, it's a big of 'role reversal' with Matilda seeming very much more the grown-up sensible one, and Dad is the one dawdling or distracted by interesting sights.

A colourfully-illustrated story, with a lot of love for the characters shown in the drawings, and a great message about family love. A perfect choice for families looking for books that reflect their own norm.

For ages 3-7.

With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample copy of the latest edition.

This is a lovely little read! It is so sweet to see how differently daddy and her do things and how they think. Yet, in the end, they need each other to have the best adventure. It is great to read, as a funny little story, but also shows your children that people are all different, and you need everyone to make the world the best place!

A very sweet story about how differences are important written around a treasure hunt! Matilda and her dad are completely different and as such, can get frustrated with each other. That doesn't mean they don't both bring something to their adventures. Beautifully drawn, full of bright colors, this would be a good book to discuss differences, strengths, and weaknesses.
This will be a book that I read with my class!

Is there a more perfect and heartwarming Dad-daughter relationship than the one portrayed here in The Way to Treasure Island? If there is, I can’t think of one! We have read this book over and over again, we love it so much!

Matilda and Dad are the best of friends but are complete opposites. When Matilda finds a treasure map they decide to go on adventure to find the treasure, but they are in some disagreement as to how to go about it. While Matilda seems to have a scientific brain, guided by logic, reason and, well, the map, Dad’s more creative brain formulates questionable shortcuts and becomes distracted by the world around him, pausing often to study rocks and plants, much to the frustration of his daughter.

What transpires, of course, is that neither of their approaches is the best one, rather they each need the other to get the most out of their adventures. Better together than apart (*all the emotional tears*) ❤️

Stewart’s illustrations are completely breathtaking, particularly the expansive undersea spreads. The colours just pop from the pages, cleverly evoking the sunshine and wondrous natural world around them.

My 3 year old loves the idea of setting off in a boat to find some treasure and we’ve used this book as a basis for some bookish play, creating our own treasure maps and building a boat out of boxes before setting out on our (living room based) voyage.

With thanks for our gifted copy for review.

I was delighted to receive this as a digital copy to review, I love Lizzy Stewart's illustrations, and even wrote an essay on her in my first year of university. As expected, I loved it! She adds such lovely detail to her work, and the illustration style is full of texture. Her illustrations are always so varied, focusing mainly on zooming in and out of the scenes. Really adds interest and pace. There were some beautiful full page spreads, scenes of nature within the sea and on the island, so lovely and detailed you could spend ages looking at each little creature she added in. Text was placed with careful treatment, was nice when certain words were pulled out in larger font size for emphasis to bring the story along. As for the story, it was an amazing little adventure that paired well with the illustrations. There was a nice relationship between father and daughter. I enjoyed the exaggeration of their opposite traits, one is very direct sticking to the map, while the other full of wonder and up for an explore. It was great that the story showed we need a little bit of both to make the best of adventures. Just lovely! Will certainly be picking up a copy when this is released.

Aimed at a lower school age child audience, this is a great choice for those adventurous readers who are starting to read independently or with an adult. Matilda and her Dad are off on a journey to find treasure as marked on a map with a big red cross, if only Dad can stop getting distracted along the way! With colourful, engaging pictures and an independent smart cookie of a female lead, The Way to Treasure Island is a great conversation starter or classroom stimulus book. Matilda is clever but impatient with her Dad, something I think every adult understands (!), which makes her wonderfully relatable and a bit more interesting. As the adult reading this book, the fun loving nature of Dad to always be looking for the excitement in everything is a nice switch on the usual sensible parent stereotype – it would be great to be more like this Dad. Visually, this is an appealing read, with a pleasing mix of full page illustrations in with highlight on action illustrations, so not too over-stimulating. There is also not too much emphasis on words – there is enough gap in the written word and illustrations to allow for conversation and own interpretation, which always makes for a great read with an adult for me. This is a great quality picture book –is it too much to hope for a sequel with Matilda and Dad?!
Thank you to Quarto Publishers and Net Galley for the e-book advance of this title.

This is a really lovely book about a girl and her dad going on an adventure. They are very different and like to do things in their own ways but always have fun together. Lovely illustrations too.

A lovely little story highlighting the relationship between a little girl and her daddy. Follow them on their journey as they both try their own easy to find the treasure. Will the little girl's sensible map following tactic or the dad's excitable notice-everything way lead them to the right place.. Or will love and the power of their bond triumph. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read aloud.

This was a beautiful book about how people don't need to be the same to have fun together and that , if anything, we need to be different in order to see the beauty in things more.

Well illustrated with a lovely message, this is a book I will enjoy with my children and share with others.