Tarzan: In Easy-to-Read Type

by Bob Blaisdell (Adapter), Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators. Large, easy-to-read type, accompanied by 18 striking illustrations. Abridged.

96 pages, Paperback

Published March 12, 1997

About the author

Bob Blaisdell is a published adapter, author, editor, and an illustrator of children's books and young adult books. He teaches English in Brooklyn at Kingsborough Community College. He is a reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor and the editor of more than three dozen anthologies for Dover Publications. Email him at Robert.Blaisdell@Kingsborough.edu

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although marketed here as a "Children's" book, this book really is quite violent with various fights, attacks, and killing. I am sure you all know the basics of the story...I don't remember why or when I was introduced to it but I won't bother introducing it to my kids. That said, I won't stop them from reading it either. Children's picture books and cartoons soften this story up nicely.

[Riley · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this book is very good. I liked reading the part when Tarzan was grown up and fighting the apes.