This is for boys only

I don’t get it

I liked this book and how they tried to catch moby dick. I liked the part where they found their first whale.

Having read Melville's version twice, I can safely say that I prefer this children's version. Note: racist terms, colonial tone, and whaling history throughout the story should be thoughtfully discussed and addressed.

LB is enjoying reading the words he knows and recognizes and is sounding out a few new ones. He is waiting anxiously for them to get on the boat already.

Waaayy different than I expected. I can say it was still a good reading.

Very simple story. But in its simplicity, a very adventurous story awaits for the readers to keep reading until the next page.

Moby dick was an action packed book, with twists, turns and some refrences to other stories. There are beautiful illustrations in the book, so that it further clarifies the character, and helps you put a face on the voices. The book is about an infamous whale that seems to be escaping the grasp of whale hunters. A specific captain, named Captain Ahab was hunting the whale for ages. It seems he is very upset that Moby bit off his leg, and left Ahab with a peg leg. Ahab as it turns out was similar to Ahab from the bible. As it turns out, the book ends up sharing many similarities to the bible, not only with the names, but also the story of the people in the bible.

What a satisfying twist at the end. a hearse... a rope that kills in the middle of the sea...Good old Queequeg and his floating buoy. my read aloud with Cooper

I tried to read Moby Dick several times, but never could get very far. My 9 year old grandson had just read this illustrated child's version. I picked it up so I we could talk about it. It seemed to me the story is a bit grim for a child since everyone dies but the narrator, but Hayden said it was a "pretty good adventure" so I guess Ms. Bogart has modified it to be suitable for children. The biggest quibble I have is with it was the illustrations of Queequeg. While the text indicates that his tattoos were complex, the illustration is of a man with uniform square polka-dots covering his body. He looks clownish.

At times, life’s voyage can be a bit like wading through Moby Dick. Page after page. chapter after chapter, wave after wave. Sometimes there’s great discovery, sometimes ambivalence, sometimes boredom. Every now and then one spots a whale---but where’s the one that haunts you? Where’s the great white one?

The author’s study of the whale is exhaustive. He spends three whole chapters on the sperm whale’s head, one on the spout, one on the tail, two on the skeleton, another on ambergris, a substance found in the whale’s intestines.

More chapters are spent recounting the history of whaling, explaining the makeup and crew of a whaling ship, and relating the tale of the hunt and collection of sperm oil.

Melville’s characters are colorful and provocative. Captains Bildad and Peleg, owners of the Pequod, are “fighting Quakers with a vengeance.” Starbuck, the first mate, has “flesh as hard as twice-baked biscuit.” Queequeeg, the tattooed Kokokovo islander, shaves with a harpoon. Ahab is a one-legged “king of the sea and lord of leviathans”, hell-bent on harpooning the great white whale. And Ishmael is the greenhorn sailor-narrator with a vision for the “vast blue eye of the sea.”

I’d had Moby Dick on my reading list long since moving from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic. I won’t pretend that my overdue read of Melville’s big book of the ocean swept me completely off my feet. But, like a long, meditative stroll on the beach, like a luxurious day spent gazing out over its perpetual whitecaps, it sure did captivate me.

Enjoyable book. Personally it was a bit too easy and very boring. It seemed like nothing was ever happening. You are taken along the journey for the seek of the Great White Whale Moby dick, who had been the cause to many unfortunate injuries. The book just goes on about tales of the captain and the short struggles that they seek. The ending is terrible and i was glad to be finished with that never ending dull book.