I have an English version of this book, "Slovenly Peter". It's hard to find the English version. I read it as a child, and (since I was a thumb sucker) I scribbled all over the page with the tailor who cut off the child's thumbs! It's a Victorian thing, we don't understand now, but back then scaring children into being 'good' was quite acceptable. I was always fascinated by the illustrations of the child who ate too much and split in two.. his insides were solid and homogenous, like a hot dog. :-)

Oh, gee, it only formed during a cyclone in 1970... so it wasn't rock, it was sand. Just a big pile of sand, like a sandbar. And sandbars erode, disappear, show up somewhere else...

That's a strange statement, since global sea level has *not* risen more than a few inches. There must be other reasons that the island disappeared. If global sea levels rose six feet, Venice would be underwater, and so would a lot of other places. Subsidence, plate movement, something else is likely to blame.