The Swiss Family Robinson – Harpercollins Children’S Classic

Shipwrecked on a tropical island with whatever could be salvaged from the hold, a family sets about building a life there, and everything they manage is worked out step by step. Johann David Wyss wrote the novel for his own children, and it shows in the attention to practical detail: shelters, food stores, tools and the gradual conversion of an unfamiliar island into somewhere habitable. The animals and plants encountered belong to no single real place, something readers have noticed for two centuries and children rarely mind. Cooperation, ingenuity and patience carry the story more than danger does. This HarperCollins Children's Classics edition offers the complete text in paperback. Groundwork the book lays: • A survival story driven by problem solving rather than by peril • Episodic chapters that work well as nightly family reading • Every family member given a role in building the settlement • Paperback HarperCollins Children's Classics edition Suited to children, family read-alouds and readers of classic adventure, available at Boipoka.