Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable
By Lucy Aikin, Johann David Wyss, Johann Rudolf Wyss · Running time 2:13:06 · Nautical & Marine Fiction, Action & Adventure
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About this book
All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer and writing as Mary Godolphin, accomplishes this with apparent ease in this little book. The story of a plucky family ship wrecked on a desolate island, saving what they can from the ship, is well known. The entire family, under the leadership of an intrepid father and mother works together to not only survive in this island, but actually prosper. This work would seem an excellent one for non-English native readers to try their skill at. (Summary by Phil
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