Moby-dick

Informationen zum Autor Herman Melville (1819-1891) worked as a bank clerk! farmhand! and teacher before going to sea! starting as a cabin boy and ultimately joining the U.S. Navy. He is best known for Moby-Dick! one of the greatest works of American literature. Patrick Benson has illustrated dozens of children's books! including OWL BABIES by Martin Waddell! SQUEAK'S GOOD IDEA by Max Eilenberg! THE SEA-THING CHILD by Russell Hoban! and THE MINPINS by Roald Dahl. The recipient of a Mother Goose Award in 1984! Patrick Benson lives in Hawick! England. Klappentext An abridgement of the nineteenth-century novel in which a young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod whose fanatical Captain Ahab is in determined pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick. Zusammenfassung Welcome two new Candlewick Illustrated Classics! These collectible editions bring treasured stories to life with lavish full-color interior illustrations and elegant French flaps. (Age 10 and up) Jan Needle abridges Herman Melville’s epic to focus on the intensely dramatic story of Captain Ahab’s ill-fated quest for the white whale! while Patrick Benson’s powerful illustrations evoke the lost world of whaling in enormous detail. A compelling invitation to readers who may one day explore the full text of Moby-Dick.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Benson, Herman Melville, Herman/ Needle Melville, Jan Needle
• Assisted by: Patrick Benson (Illustration), Jan Needle (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 10
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.08.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780763642136
• ISBN: 978-0-7636-4213-6
• Series: Candlewick Illustrated Classic; Candlewick Illustrated Classics; Candlewick Illustrated Classics
• Subject: Children's and young people's books