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Moby Dick: or The White Whale (Oxford Illustrated Classics)

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I recently read this book to my 7th grade lit. class. They loved it and I enjoyed reading it to them. It not only tells the story of Moby Dick,it is a gem unto itself.Ms. McCaughrean's literary language enables the reader (and listener) to have a perfect image of characters and events.

Geraldine McCaughrean's retelling of Melville's Moby Dick provides welcome and rewarding access to the plot and characters of this classic. Victor Ambrus' illustrations are wonderful. For several years now we have been turning to this jewel!

,,,be sure child is not too young. Illustrations and writing are excellent! but we feel our granddaughter though she is a mature age 6
will appreciate it even moret as she gets older was somewhat hard to locate supplier of book, but finally did.

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.

This is so thrilling and scary and wonderfully (I mean, brilliantly) illustrated. Among other things it should go along way to alleviating student fear of the great gray book about the great white whale.

Never was sent to me. Still waiting for response to my email asking what happened. I'm ok if it's taking a little longer but just want to get the book!

This is an illustrated version of Moby-Dick for children.