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　　"For many days we had been tempest-tossed...the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost." From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons--a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe," " this heartwarming tale portrays a family's struggle to create a new life on a strange and fantastic tropical island. There each boy must learn to utilize his own unique nature as their adventures lead to difficult challenges and amazing discoveries, including a puzzling message tied to an albatross's leg. But it is in the ingenuity and authenticity of the family itself, and the natural wonders of this exotic land that have made The Swiss Family Robinson," " first published at the beginning of the nineteenth century, one of the most enduring and imitated stories of shipwreck and survival. "From the Paperback edition."

作者简介

　　Johann David Wyss (1743-1818) was, like the narrator of his famous story of survival on an uninhabited island, a Swiss pastor who had four sons. It was to entertain and instruct these children that he devised the idea of the island and its plethora of natural resources, but the writing of Der schweizerische Robinson is said to have been the responsibility of one of the sons, Johann Rudolf (1782-1830). First published in 1812, it was first translated into English two years later. Since then its translators have been many and they have freely adapted and expanded the original German text, making it one of the most popular novels of all time.
　　Louis John Rhead (1857-1926), an American artist, was born in England. He illustrated many classics of children's literature, including Gulliver's Travels (1913), Grimms' Fairy Tales (1917) and Stevenson's Kidnapped (1921), all for the firm of Harper in New York. His illustrations for The Swiss Family Robinson, 'done from sketches made in the tropics', were first published in 1909.

目　　录

SHIPWRECKED!
ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES
THE HOUSE IN THE TREE
RETURN TO TENT HOUSE
SAVAGES - AND A TIGER
FINDING THE PINNACE
EXCURSION TO CALABASH WOOD
MAKING CANDLES
BUFFALOES AND A JACKAL
GRIZZLY AGAIN
THE GROTTO
GATHERING THE HARVEST
THE STRANDED WHALE
EXPLORING THE SAVANNAH

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　　From School Library Journal
　　Grade 3-5-- It goes without saying that, in the process ofcondensing and rewriting these books down to a fourth-grade readinglevel, most of the distinguished aspects of the works--writingstyle, language, atmosphere, characterization--have been sacrificedfor a simple, not to say simplistic, master-plots approach thatconveys the incidents but fails to impart the justification fortheir continuing endurance in the canon of juvenile literature. Thebooks are illustrated with some attention paid to the sense of theplots and characters. For those who persist in the fallacy thatknowing what the so-called "classics" of children's literature areabout is a satisfactory substitution for actually experiencing themby reading the original, this series is acceptable. For the rest ofus, it's as if someone's painted a guppy white and called it MobyDick. --Christine Behrmann, New York Public Library
　　Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refersto an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
　　Review

From School Library Journal 
　　Grade 3-5-- It goes without saying that, in the process of
condensing and rewriting these books down to a fourth-grade reading
level, most of the distinguished aspects of the works--writing
style, language, atmosphere, characterization--have been sacrificed
for a simple, not to say simplistic, master-plots approach that
conveys the incidents but fails to impart the justification for
their continuing endurance in the canon of juvenile literature. The
books are illustrated with some attention paid to the sense of the
plots and characters. For those who persist in the fallacy that
knowing what the so-called "classics" of children's literature are
about is a satisfactory substitution for actually experiencing them
by reading the original, this series is acceptable. For the rest of
us, it's as if someone's painted a guppy white and called it Moby
Dick. --Christine Behrmann, New York Public Library 
　　Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 
　　Review 
　　A rereading of the original, beloved in childhood, reveals its
old-fashioned wordiness, so perhaps an abridgement is needed to
introduce it to today's 3rd to 5th graders. But in this abridgement
much of the fascination, the enchantment, of the original is wholly
lost. The illustrations, too, in stereotyped drawings and
sentimental color pictures do nothing to enhance the text. There
are better presentations of this story, which even today is a
classic in the field of tales of castaways. (Kirkus Reviews) --This
text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.

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