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The Stevenson Trilogy Set<\/a> Now your child can enjoy\u00a0Treasure Island\u00a0<\/em>by Robert Louis Stevenson as a Michael Clay Thompson language-illustrated classic. The novel\u00a0is reproduced in its entirety and includes Michael’s “language illustrations”\u2014close-ups of poetic techniques, four-level analyses of interesting grammar, and comments about writing strategies. Challenging vocabulary is defined at the bottom of each page.<\/p>\n According to Michael,\u00a0“<\/em>Treasure Island\u00a0was first serialized in\u00a0<\/em>Young Folks\u00a0magazine from 1881 to 1882 and then published in novel form in 1883. Stevenson created a world-unto-itself, with a ship\u2019s-worth of pirates and rogues, good souls and bad. While reading\u00a0<\/em>Treasure Island, we feel the salt spray of the novel, hear the booming surf on the reef, and glimpse the quick wink of that smartest of pirates, Long John Silver. Jim Hawkins is a true spirit, navigating a path through the unworldly, even as circumstances become stranger and stranger. Stevenson soaks us in strong characters with vivid, rich names\u2014rascals and thieves, lawyers and boys. From one\u2019s first reading of\u00a0<\/em>Treasure Island, Long John Silver clunks into one\u2019s inner reality with his wooden leg and his squawking parrot and his weasel words, and from that day forward, there is always an inner Long John lurking within us, ready to fool us once again.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
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