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Title: Classic Starts: Treasure Island (Classic Starts Series)
ISBN: 1402713185
Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Publicate Date: 2005-03-01
Publish: 2005-03-01
List Price: $5.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Not the original story, good introduction to classics, that's why they are called Classic Starts
My son was 6 when we picked this book up. We read together as a family in the evening. I like to introduce him to the classics when I can. Some of them, like Treasure Island or the Three Muskateers are either too long for him to sit through or too graphic.
This is probably for the 9 to 12 year old reading ability.
This is an abridged version of Treasure Island, the main part of the story is still there. Now to someone who may have already read Treasure Island, you may feel the book is missing its heart.
To my 6 year old this book was enthralling. He found the original on my book shelf and moved it into his room for when he gets older.
We have a number of the Classic Starts books, I prefer them to some of the other children aimed classics. There are simple illustrations throughout the book.
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2: RETOLD (Not the original book)
This is NOT the original book by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Parents, please don't allow your children to be brain-washed. Opt for the original classics.
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3: Little Classic Hidden Treasures
You feel like a kid again when you get these small treasures to read. Treasure Island is one of those little books that you have to read. I read it as a child and you don't appreciate them as much then as you do now looking at the book and thinking back to when you first read it. Now I want my kids and someday my grandchildren to read it, too. It's a great gift to start a little ones library with.
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4: 20,000 leagues under the sea
my son is 19 years old, in jail and is finally trying to read and is enjoying it! thank you for having the classics starts, it's not heavy reading but it was exciting as he can accomplish reading a book in 2-3 days! it gives him accomplishment!
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5: Treasure Pleasure
Treasure Island
Retold by Chris Tait Original story by Robert Louis Stevenson
I am ten-years-old and my Teacher, Mrs. McAuley asked us to write a book review on the book we read. This is mine.
This book is just one of the Classic Starts series. These books are easy to read and good for all ages. I highly recommend this book as a good family novel because it's easy to make a mind image of putting yourself in the story. I would like to see this made into a movie.
The story has many different settings, first you start out in Admiral BenBow Inn and then we go on board the Hispanola ship, eventually it all ends up on Treasure Island. At the Inn we meet Jim Hawkins and his mom who rents a room to Billy Bones. Billy Bones turned out to be a pirate with Captain Flint's secret treasure map that Jim Hawkins found.
Jim shares the map with his trusted friends and they all decide to buy a ship, hire a crew, and set sail for the treasure. Chapter Seven describes the crew which includes: The captain (Captain Smollet), the ships doctor (Doctor Livesey), the cook (Long John Silvers), 2nd mate (Officer Trelawney), 1st mate (Arrow), and 19 additional crew members. Can you tell which crew members are evil and which are good, read the book and see. However, it'll be hard to tell whether Long John Silvers is either a friend or a foe.
With so many crew members and only one treasure, a battle is about to spawn. Good sailors, and evil pirates, who will become victorious and receive Flint's treasure,?
Near the end they finally land on Treasure Island. While searching for the treasure suddenly... "Fifteen men on a deadmans chest--- Yo ho ho in a bottle of rum" everyone screams in fear, at the familiar voice... but if Flint's dead and the Island is uninhabited, who can it be?
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