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Three Australian children, adrift on a rubber raft, are cast ashore in a strange land of tiny people.
Publication
HMH Books for Young Readers (2002), Edition: 1, 240 pages
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LibraryThing member Treeseed
I would have to say that Children's literature is and always has been my favorite genre and I've read thousands upon thousands of children's books. When I say this is one of my favorites of all time, I mean it as high praise indeed. My 4th grade teacher read it to our class back in 1962 and I was
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captivated by it from the first page. Two brothers and a sister, Ralph, Jim, and Peggy, drift too far out to sea when they are rafting off the coast of Australia. In the darkness of night they do eventually wash up onto a shore...but it is certainly not a familiar shore in any way! It seems the kids have washed aground in Lilliput, the very land where Gulliver's story unfolded long before. There have been no other "giants" in Lilliput since Gulliver's Travels and the Lilliputians are as amazed and unsettled by this event as the children. Lilliput has continued to change and develop in the years since Gulliver's visit and theirs is a modern world not unlike the one the children have left behind, only much, much smaller. The descriptions are really delightful such as when one of the Lilliputians gives poor Peggy a bedspread to wipe her tears. The youngest brother finds ways of getting everyone into trouble and causing some hilarious predicaments. This book has lots of action and is such good food for the imagination that it stuck with me for over 40 years and is still as fresh in my mind as the day my teacher read it. Do the kids ever get home to Australia? Well...wait and see, but don't miss this book, it's the greatest. Show Less
LibraryThing member largeroomlibrary
Three children find a rubber raft in which they hop into and decide to adventure the water
near the Australian coast. then they wish they had not even put there feet in that old
rubber raft, for as far as they all could see, they were stranded on an island that was covered
in tiny homes, tiny
the three children find themself breaking front porches, running from tiny police men
with tiny pistols with ammo stuffed inside the pistol, their adventures in Lilliput are fantastic
and i think any child would love to read this book!
near the Australian coast. then they wish they had not even put there feet in that old
rubber raft, for as far as they all could see, they were stranded on an island that was covered
in tiny homes, tiny
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animals, tiny cars and trains and even real tiny people!!!the three children find themself breaking front porches, running from tiny police men
with tiny pistols with ammo stuffed inside the pistol, their adventures in Lilliput are fantastic
and i think any child would love to read this book!
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1958
Physical description
240 p.; 5 inches
ISBN
0152162860 / 9780152162863