DNF

It's hard to remember a time in my life before I knew the story of Long John Silver and Captain Nathaniel Flint! Stories such as this which are embedded in my youth are what incline me, in fact, to "buckle my swash."

Title: “Treasure Island”
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, Deidre S. Laiken (adapter)
Illustrator: AJ McCalister
Genre: Historic (Realistic) Fiction
Theme(s): Fiction, Adventure, Island, Pirates, Treasure
Opening line/sentence: “I am writing this story about Treasure Island on the request of my friends, Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey.”
Brief Book Summary:
Professional Recommendation/Review #1:
School Library Journal
Gr 3-5-Stripped down from the original, this version reads smoothly enough for younger readers to get the plot and essential characters straight and the oversized format gives the story and pictures import. But 14 Wyeth illustrations, murkily reproduced and in a garishly yellowed tint, hardly convey the artist's full-color, masterful, and classic depictions of the action. To see the real pictures, suggest that children look at the version published by Atheneum (1981). They might even read the whole story.-Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VA Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.
Professional Recommendation/Review #2:
Publishers Weekly
The Scribner Storybook Classic line adds Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, abridged by Timothy Meis, with vintage illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and follows it to South America, only to wind up in the hands of the notorious pirate Long John Silver. Climactic scenes of aggressive mutineers or the hero's valiant attempt to keep the evil Mr. Hands at bay come alive in Wyeth's atmospheric oil paintings. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Response to Two Professional Reviews: Having read a few different versions of Stephenson’s masterpiece, this is not the best one, but is however good for the purpose it serves which is to be for younger readers.
Evaluation of Literary Elements: The font in this book is pretty large, but not huge in any sense. There are a few black and white pictures throughout. The narrator of Treasure Island is Jim Hawkins who definitely has a flair for the dramatic. He likes to remind us that he's involved in a high-stakes search for treasure. The potential reward is enormous (gold bars) but the risks are equally intense.
Consideration of Instructional Application: This is a very interesting book that I think many children would enjoy. I think this would provide a great book talk afterwards to talk about tough topics like good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, innocence, guilt, and many other topics that are present in the book. It is definitely higher elementary reading, so I would only assign it/have in my library if I was upper elementary because Kindergarteners would not be able to read this.

After my friend's overwhelming praise of Treasure Planet, I want to know the source material of the said movie. I thought a hyped movie like that must have a great source material.

Boy am I wrong.

The main theme of the story is one of my favorite: a misfit team trying to find lost treasure. However, the way the story was told was really bad. On the middle to final arc, where things get interesting due to the constant chase, the story got freaking interrupted by some jackasses who appears and went "Listen to my story!". It ruins the whole pacing!

Also Long John Silver. That is one nice privy.

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is about a boy named Jim. One day when Jim was tending to the customers in his fathers inn the doors swung open and in stepped a man who practically had rags fort clothes what happened next Jim didn't even realize what was happening until it was to late. Find out what happens to Jim and the man with the ragged clothes. I though this book was nice because it had adventure feel to it but i didn't like it because it was slow in some parts and them other parts in the book it was boring, in the begging it was slow and not very much happened until chapter three. I also didn't like about this book is that you knew what was going to happen next and it did get a little annoying after awhile. When the book started it was Jim in his study and he was Telling you what happened to him so many years ago and I liked it because it was Jim's perspective and i like that because it happened to the main character in this case Jim. I would say the theme of this book is be brave when you need to. I say this because when Jim had some Unexpected visitors and it ended with someone in a terrible state he had to be brave and hope that everyone and everything will be alright and they will be safe but instead things happened and not everything went to plan and Jim and his companions had to be brave.

I liked it. And I enjoyed the illustrations. I think I’ll read the “adult” version as well.

Fun for the family. Our boys enjoyed the classic story, but the adaptation left something to be desired.

What was missing was the fleshing out of the horrible uselessness of the pursuit of wealth. It is hinted at, but the adaptation focused instead on the chases and near escapes.

Long John Silver's character does receive a decent treatment. His unscrupulous switching sides, always trying to come out on top - that was well done.

The Doctor's bravery and sense of duty to those who are suffering or injured, along with his wisdom were well-portrayed.

Jim Hawkins is impulsive and foolish, which presents good topics for conversation with the kids. His actions endanger so many good men, even while turning out well in the end. A profitable question, then, do the ends justify the means?

Two words we learned about in this book: mutiny and drunkenness. Lots and lots of drinking. Be prepared to answer some questions on this because there are few chapters where alcohol consumption and over-consumption are built into the story.

I liked this book because it had fellings like sad, excited, happy, mad, and melancholy. I didn't like when the author said the captain would die if he got the blacjk spot. Of Course the captin got the black spot and had till 10 o clock at night to die. Then he died at 6 o clock at night because he had a stroke.I liked how the author made the captainscrew come to the inn and break down the door and found that what there looking for is missing.I was scared when the mother was about to faint because if my mom ever fainted i wouldn't know what to do and I would be crying to.I really liked it, it was intersting and I hope evryone will read this book because I reccomend it.

This looks like the closest edition to the version Jacob and I read. This book was slow but we made ourselves finish it because we needed the book to count for the summer reading contest. We couldn't tell if Long John Silver even died at the end. A movie version is probably more engaging that this tale.

This adaptation is very fun and age appropriate. It is somewhat scary, just enough to be exciting, but not so much to scare children. My 6 year old has read this book at least twice and was not scared. In fact, he’s the reason I decided to read it. I’ve never read the full-length, unabridged version, so I cannot tell you the differences. However, I think if you want the broad strokes, this version by Laiken is pretty good.

Genre Classic (this is not the real cover I couldn't find it)


I thought this book was really hard to understand becasue it was in old english and I dont really know what some of the stuff was on the ship. Sometimes I couldnt tell if the characters were talking because the author only had ' and they talked reallly long sentences, like a paragraph size sometimes. Sometimes I just couldnt tell where they were and everything got all jumbled up. I would not recommend this unless you know old english and ships.

Treasure Island is an interesting story as it is every kid's dream to find treasure on an island. The story is about a young boy named Jim Hawkins, whose parents own an inn. An old captain came to stay at the inn and he had a treasure map. Jim and several friends go to try to find the treasure. The story is exciting as it involves pirates and mutiny, and many fights among the crew members. There is no way to know what will happen in the story until you get to the end.