Gulliver's stories / retold from Jonathan Swift ; by Edward W. Dolch, Marguerite P. Dolch, and Beulah F. Jackson ; drawings by Jean-Jacques Vayssières.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolch, Edward W. (Edward William), 1889-1961.

Contributor:

Dolch, Marguerite P. (Marguerite Pierce), 1891-1978.

Jackson, Beulah F.

Vayssières, Jean Jacques

Geoffrey Denison Gulliver's Travels Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Scholastic junior classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Gulliver, Lemuel.

Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character).

Voyages, Imaginary.

Voyages, Imaginary--Juvenile fiction.

Travelers--Juvenile fiction.

Travelers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Voyages, Imaginary.

Penn Provenance:

Denison, Geoffrey (former owner)

Physical Description:

166 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scholastic, 2001.

Summary:

Designed for younger readers of the classics, "Gulliver's Stories" is based on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", the hilarious and incredible adventures of a man who finds himself first as a feared giant in the world of tiny people of Lilliput, and then as a man of minuscule proportions in a country full of giants.

Contents:

My voyage to Lilliput: I find myself in Lilliput

I am taken to the city

I am given a house

I lean the language

I am set free

I visit the king's palace

I help the king of Lilliput

I learn the king's plans

I visit Blefuscu

I get home again

My voyage to Brobdingnag: I come to a strange country

I have some bad time

I get a nursemaid and friend

I am taken to the queen

My life in the palace

My traveling box

I get back to England.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2009.

Contains:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels.

ISBN:

0439236207

9780439236201

OCLC:

45662272