Customer Reviews

Moby Dick: Or, the White Whale (Oxford Illustrated Classics Series)

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Our family enjoyed this book! It is a wonderful way to share a classic with a child. My 8 year old son loved the beautiful language and the illustrations. This book was perfect for younger readers who may not be ready for the full version. There are great moral lessons covered in Moby Dick. Reading this book provided a natural environment to discuss these important charachter traits. It also allowed us to take off with a further study of whales. A great book!

Geraldine McCaughrean does storytelling perfectly and Moby Dick is no exception.

This was a read aloud to a twelve year old boy who absolutely could not wait for bedtime to hear the next installment. Now that our son has met Queequeg, Captain Ahab, Starbuck and Pip in this children's version he will be ready to read Melville's Moby Dick without hesitation.

Her writing is excellent, " He was right. The longer we rowed, the larger the white hump grew. It was vast- larger by far than any monstrous whale.
The thing had no face, no mouth. Countless limp tentacles spread from its central core, coiling and twisting, floating and groping the water blindly: a Medusa of sea serpents, a miracle of vileness. If I live to be two hundred, I shall never see a sight so weirdly wonderful, so monumentally monstrous. It had no face, no eyes. It seemed to have no bone or rib or skull, but was one vast pulpy, undulating mass."

This book is one hundred pages of excitement and thrill.

I liked the book, I just think it could of had a little more detail at the very end. But I recommend it.