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The Story of Gulliver


Save the Story

School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

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No. of pages 96

Published: 2018

Great for age 8-13 years

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For the first time in his life, Gulliver felt ashamed of himself and his fellow-humans." Gulliver is a travel-hungry and adventurous ship's doctor, who has the odd misfortune of being shipwrecked four times in as many voyages. Through Jonathan Coe's expert retelling of Swift's famous satire about our human hubris and desires, today's young readers are swept along as Gulliver finds himself a giant among tiny humans in Lilliput; a tiny human among giants in Brobdignag; on the flying island of Laputa, with its most impractical intellectuals; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of human "Yahoos".

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Save the Story .

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published in 2018 by Pushkin Children's Books .

Jonathan Coe was born a long time ago in England, where he still lives. He has written twelve books, among them The House of Sleep and The Rain Before it Falls, but knows that he will never write as beautiful a book as Gulliver's Travels.

 

This book is in the following series:

Save the Story

'The Story of Gulliver has Jonathan Coe's hallmark clarity... attractive, entertaining... Swift would have approved' Observer

 

'Beguiling, accessible and absurdly funny' Herald

 

'A children's book of the year 2013' Time Out London