Kidnapped (Ladybird Children's Classics)

Retold by John Grant

ISBN 10: 0721408621 / ISBN 13: 9780721408620

Published by Ladybird Books, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK, 1985

About this Item

52 pages. Colour illustrations within text. No dustjacket. Light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends of shiny hardback binding. Pages very clean and tidy.

Seller Inventory # 723010

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kidnapped (Ladybird Children's Classics)
• Publisher: Ladybird Books, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0721408621
• ISBN 13: 9780721408620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustratedby Terry Gabbey
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Good ++/Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket

About this title

Synopsis

The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance he has been cheated out of.

Review

These inaugurate a new series of uniform classics, simplified so that little more than their bare essentials remain. Where there may be an excuse for a revision for young moderns of, say, the stilted quality of Defoe's Crusoe or a shortening of Kidnapped's lengthy descriptions - these are matters of individual taste. But it does seem that readers should be willing to take what the authors wrote originally. That case is strengthened by the bone-dryness of these revisions, all of which have been cut so extensively that little atmosphere remains, and the purpose-to introduce young readers to the classics-defeats itself. Attractive size and format and plentiful supplies of colored pictures make up for textual imperfections. Plastic covers. (Kirkus Reviews) --Kirkus Reviews