These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
Pictured in the Sadleback edition; read was the Pocket Classics edition, the same book by a previous publisher and printed in black in white. This narrative is fairly well served by the Pendulum approach because action and foreign locals are illustratable. The pacing is uneven, this is a one of Vincent Fago's books after all, but the story holds interest. The elegance of the art, for once, is apt for this story.
Whatever you think of Bligh, and I believe his reputation to have been maligned, his feat of getting himself and the men set adrigt with him back to safety is without doubt one of the greatest maritime/survival feats of all time.