| ISBN |
9780194249805 paperback |
| Name |
Raynham, Alex adaptor. |
| Uniform title |
Schweizerische Robinson. English |
| Title |
The Swiss family Robinson / Johann David Wyss ; text adaptation by Alex Raynham ; illustrated by Peter Cottrill. |
| Edition |
Oxford University Press readers edition. |
| Published |
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| ©2014 |
| Description |
51 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Notes |
Includes comprehensive questions and exercises throughout book. |
| Originally published in Switzerland by Orell Füssli & Cie, in 1812 as: Schweizerische Robinson. |
| Summary |
"There's going to be a storm," Father told Fritz. "Find your brothers and bring them to our room." A Swiss family are going to Australia when their ship sinks in a storm. After that, Mother, Father, Frits, Hans, Ernst and little Franz must make their home on a Pacific Island. They adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming. |
| Reading Program Note |
Level one. 400 headwords. |
| Language note |
Translated from the German. |
| Subjects |
Survival at sea -- Fiction |
| Shipwreck survival -- Fiction |
| Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction |
| Islands -- Fiction |
| Jungles -- Fiction |
| Families -- Fiction |
| English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers |
| Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc |
| Readers for new literates |
| Genre |
Classical fiction |
| Adventure stories |
| Sea fiction |
| Easy to read (yellow : starters) |
| Readers (Adult) |
| Other Names |
Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818 author. |
| Based on (work): Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818. Schweizerische Robinson. |
| Cottrill, Peter illustrator. |
| Series |
Dominoes. Level one |
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