Praise for The Cay "Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story...The idea that all humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness permeates the whole book...The result is a story with a high ethical purpose but no sermon."--
New York Times Book Review "A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation...At once barbed and tender, tense and fragile--as Timothy would say, 'outrageous good.'"--
Kirkus Reviews * "Fully realized setting...artful, unobtrusive use of dialect...the representation of a hauntingly deep love, the poignancy of which is rarely achieved in children's literature."--
School Library Journal, Starred "Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling."--
Saturday Review "A tense and moving experience in reading."--
Publishers Weekly "Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of man."--
Booklist "This is one of the best survival stories since
Robinson Crusoe."--
The Washington Star - A
New York Times Best Book of the Year
- A
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
- A
Horn Book Honor Book
- An American Library Association Notable Book
- A
Publishers Weekly Children's Book to Remember
- A Child Study Association's Pick of Children's Books of the Year
- Jane Addams Book Award
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
- Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award
- Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People Award
- Woodward School Annual Book Award
- Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine