Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels will take your child through the fantastic voyage of Lemuel Gulliver, to the Lilliput Land, where all people are six inches tall...
... On his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and awakes to find himself a prisoner of people one-twelfth the sze of normal human beings. After giving assurances of his good behavior, he is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favorite of the court. From there, the book follows Gulliver's observations on the Court of Lilliput.
Gulliver assists the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbors the Blefuscudians (by stealing their fleet). However, he refuses to reduce the country to a province of Lilliput, displeasing the King and the court. Gulliver is charged with treason. Luckily, with the assistance of a kind friend, he escapes to Blefuscu, where he spots and retrieves an abandoned boat and sails out to be rescued by a passing ship which safely takes him back home.
Reading level: ages 11 - 14 and up.
In Russian language (translated by Tamara Gabbe). Publisher: Azbooka, Russia.
Large format. Hardcover. 64 pages. With excellent color illustrations by Sergei Bordyug.
