This was a Great classic. Disney has made it into a movie-i advise you to read the book before you watch the movie. The movie and Book is great. their where a few chapters that were slow, but otherwise the book is a great read about how a family survived on a island.

posted Jun 19, 2008 at 7:06PM

For all the copies the library owns, evidently they only have a single unabridged copy, bar code 32088044011788. Get the real deal--the

posted Mar 18, 2010 at 10:02AM

some resourceful thinking to say the least!!!

posted Jul 31, 2012 at 6:54PM

well i always say "i love this book" but with this one i only like it and have to rate 1 star instead of 5. well i hate it when they shoot everthing that is alive its so horrible i wanted to write a letter about it to johann david wyss but i rememebered that he died almost 200 years ago! ha ha. i can`t write to dead person! well when there was a walrus they killed it and when the father said it wasn`t a walrus it was a sea lion! i know because there pictuers that was a walrus. and they cut of the head of a turtle! and they killed 2 snakes! and they killed 2 buffelo and they killed 2 hyenas and they killed a tiger and the killed and they killed a crab and they killed a lion and they they... took ballen of a bowhead whale oh by the way bowheads don`t grow to 80 feet. well maybye the big ones are almost gone beacuse there are some bowhead whales that grow to 70 feet. well i love whales so much.so that book is a bunch of killing the life of animals!how would we feel if someone killed us? or berfore they killed us because you couldn`t feel if you were dead! well that book makes me fell sad very very sad od the deathes of so many animals. they even shot some sea hores! and they always say after they kill an animal " this will be very usefull its so sad.

posted May 16, 2013 at 3:56PM

well i always say "i love this book" but with this one i only like it and have to rate 1 star instead of 5. well i hate it when they shoot everthing that is alive its so horrible i wanted to write a letter about it to johann david wyss but i rememebered that he died almost 200 years ago! ha ha. i can`t write to dead person! well when there was a walrus they killed it and when the father said it wasn`t a walrus it was a sea lion! i know because there pictuers that was a walrus. and they cut of the head of a turtle! and they killed 2 snakes! and they killed 2 buffelo and they killed 2 hyenas and they killed a tiger and the killed and they killed a crab and they killed a lion and they they... took ballen of a bowhead whale oh by the way bowheads don`t grow to 80 feet. well maybye the big ones are almost gone beacuse there are some bowhead whales that grow to 70 feet. well i love whales so much.so that book is a bunch of killing the life of animals!how would we feel if someone killed us? or berfore they killed us because you couldn`t feel if you were dead! well that book makes me fell sad very very sad od the deathes of so many animals. they even shot some sea hores! and they always say after they kill an animal " this will be very usefull its so sad.

posted May 16, 2013 at 3:56PM

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