The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island

The Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson

Robinson Crusoe — in Words of One Syllable

Escape from the Island of Aquarius (The Cooper Kids Adventure Series #2) (Volume 2)

Treasure Island

Treasure Island: V&A Collector's Edition

Leepike Ridge

The Swiss Family Robinson is a Johann David Wyss novel about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. It was intended to teach Wyss' four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. It includes adventures that are presented as a series of lessons in natural history and the physical sciences. The Zermatt family is sailing from Europe to Australia when a great storm runs their ship aground on a reef. The ships crew takes to a lifeboat abandoning the family who find themselves within sight of a tropical island. The ship's cargo of livestock, dogs, guns & powder, carpentry tools, books, a disassembled pinnace, and provisions have survived. The family builds a raft, lashes livestock and the most valuable supplies to it, and paddles to the island, where they set up a temporary shelter. From here the adventures abound as the family establishes a life on the island.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island

Johann David Wyss, Jean Rudolph Wyss, 1812

The Swiss Family Robinson

Ellen Beier, Johann David Wyss, Raymond James, 1812

Swiss Family Robinson

R.I.C. Publications, Kenn Goin, 2003

Robinson Crusoe — in Words of One Syllable

Daniel Defoe, Mary Godolphin, 1867

Escape from the Island of Aquarius (The Cooper Kids Adventure Series #2) (Volume 2)

Frank E. Peretti, 1986

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882

Treasure Island: V&A Collector's Edition

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882

Leepike Ridge

N.d. Wilson, 2007