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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9781402714573 Edition: Unabridged Format: Unabridged ISBN: 1402714572 Label: Sterling Manufacturer: Sterling Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 232 Publication Date: October 01, 2004 Publisher: Sterling Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Sterling Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations. Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally. Sneaky pirates, sailing ships, buried treasure, exotic lands, and murderous mutiny: what could be better to win over even the most reluctant boy reader? Robert Louis Stevenson serves up thrills, chills, and plenty of action in this timeless, and much-admired adventure novel. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Ultimate Action Adventure for families to read.I read the children's classic version of this book back when I was about 8 years old. Since then I had always assumed that somewhere out there lurked the "real" version, which in my mind was pictured to both look and read similar to "The Three Musketeers" or "Moby Dick." When I finally got around to reading the "adult version," I laughed when I realized that this is still a children's novel. It's an old fashioned action adventure clearly written with little boys about the age of 12 in mind. Read More Rating:  - Treasure Island Book ReviewTreasure Island is truly a treasure that many teenagers do not discover. Its rich language and stunning plot will captivate anyone. Teenagers should take the time and make the effort to become acquainted with this literary classic. Recently, there has been a lot of interest in pirates and this book is right up there with the best of the stories. Full of adventure, treachery, and deceit, this yarn is wonderfully spun. As you read, you go back in time to the years of the pirates. You meet evil, sinister ... Read More Rating: - A TreasureI sure hope that kids, and adults too, are still out there reading this book. What an amazing gift to English literature. I can still see in my mind the worn hardback copy of Treasure Island at my hometown library. This is the one book that I can remember reading two or three times over when I was a kid. I recently read it again to my own kids, and delighted in the masterful storytelling and drama of the book. The story is complex but well-known: Jim Hawkins, the resourceful son of an infirm innkeeper, ... Read More Rating: - Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!Treasure Island is perhaps THE classic pirate's tale. Robert Louis Stevenson, the author, created a rich story of adventure and treachery on the high seas all seen through the eyes of a boy named Jim Hawkins. Jim starts off as the son of tavern owners in a humble little port village. When an old seaman stays at the tavern, trouble soon follows him in the form of a pirate crew seeking revenge. I will not give away any more specific plot points, but events move forward to a great treasure hunt, treachery, and ... Read More Rating: - Jim Hawkins & Long John Silver. Pirates...or Patriots??? February 25, 2007This ghastly book is an amazing adventure. It starts out with a boy named Jim Hawkins. Jim and his family live in their inn called the ADMIRAL BENBOW. Captain Billy Bones is a man that holds the map to Treasure Island and the buried treasure. Jim and the crew of the HISPANIOLA head to Treasure Island. That's when Jim gets to know Long John Silver. It just happens to be that Long John Silver takes most of the men and mutinies, in order to take the treasure himself. The others that were mutinied went to ... Read More 
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