- Paperback: 104 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; New edition edition (1 April 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192781537
- ISBN-13: 978-0192781536
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 20.6 x 0.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,345,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Includes impressive amounts of the original material.... In Moby Dick, Melville wrote that 'the great leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.' Ambrus's dense, richly textured pencil and watercolor illustrations prove Melville wrong. And the hulking whales are not the best of it. Human faces and hands boast finely hatched detail, while ships on the horizon or storms moving in are ghostly apparitions, expertly suggested in haunting tones.... Respectful of Melville and of young readers."--The New York Times Book Review
"The adaptation of Melville's classic story of revenge moves swiftly... The language superbly heightens the sense of drama."--The Horn Book Guide
"Prose filled with rich, vivid, precise language shapes this retelling of Herman Melville's classic adventure of obsession. Without sacrificing the quality of the original, McCaughrean has created a shortened version of the tale that's filled with intriguing, finely drawn cha
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"There is a whale in the sea, as white as a ghost, and it haunts me. Sometimes, when I'm afloat in sleep, like a drowned sailor, he swims towards me--a nightmare all in white, jaws gaping, and I wake up screaming and salt-water wet with sweat. Somewhere out there in the bottomless oceans lives Moby Dick, a great white winter of a whale, and I shiver still at the thought of him."
In vivid and compelling language, the award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean retells Herman Melville's classic story of the obsessed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Together with Starbuck, the mate; Queequeg, the harpoonist; the sinister crewman Fedallah; and the innocent narrator, Ishmael, Ahab travels the oceans of the world in pursuit of the elusive monster, braving waves like strips of volcanoes and lightning like the visitation of angels.
McCaughrean's text is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative pictures of ships and the sea and of the white monster, Moby Dick, a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. Children and young adults will be thrilled and captivated by this wonderful adventure tale.
In vivid and compelling language, the award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean retells Herman Melville's classic story of the obsessed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Together with Starbuck, the mate; Queequeg, the harpoonist; the sinister crewman Fedallah; and the innocent narrator, Ishmael, Ahab travels the oceans of the world in pursuit of the elusive monster, braving waves like strips of volcanoes and lightning like the visitation of angels.
McCaughrean's text is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative pictures of ships and the sea and of the white monster, Moby Dick, a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. Children and young adults will be thrilled and captivated by this wonderful adventure tale.
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A Perfect Introduction to Moby Dick
2 Jan 2003
Format:Paperback
I recently read this book to my 7th grade lit. class. They loved it and I enjoyed reading it to them. It not only tells the story of Moby Dick,it is a gem unto itself.Ms. McCaughrean's literary language enables the reader (and listener) to have a perfect image of characters and events.
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Fabulous retelling and illustrations
22 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
Geraldine McCaughrean's retelling of Melville's Moby Dick provides welcome and rewarding access to the plot and characters of this classic. Victor Ambrus' illustrations are wonderful. For several years now we have been turning to this jewel!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Exciting and Thrilling
2 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback
Geraldine McCaughrean does storytelling perfectly and Moby Dick is no exception.
This was a read aloud to a twelve year old boy who absolutely could not wait for bedtime to hear the next installment. Now that our son has met Queequeg, Captain Ahab, Starbuck and Pip in this children's version he will be ready to read Melville's Moby Dick without hesitation.
Her writing is excellent, " He was right. The longer we rowed, the larger the white hump grew. It was vast- larger by far than any monstrous whale.
The thing had no face, no mouth. Countless limp tentacles spread from its central core, coiling and twisting, floating and groping the water blindly: a Medusa of sea serpents, a miracle of vileness. If I live to be two hundred, I shall never see a sight so weirdly wonderful, so monumentally monstrous. It had no face, no eyes. It seemed to have no bone or rib or skull, but was one vast pulpy, undulating mass."
This book is one hundred pages of excitement and thrill.
This was a read aloud to a twelve year old boy who absolutely could not wait for bedtime to hear the next installment. Now that our son has met Queequeg, Captain Ahab, Starbuck and Pip in this children's version he will be ready to read Melville's Moby Dick without hesitation.
Her writing is excellent, " He was right. The longer we rowed, the larger the white hump grew. It was vast- larger by far than any monstrous whale.
The thing had no face, no mouth. Countless limp tentacles spread from its central core, coiling and twisting, floating and groping the water blindly: a Medusa of sea serpents, a miracle of vileness. If I live to be two hundred, I shall never see a sight so weirdly wonderful, so monumentally monstrous. It had no face, no eyes. It seemed to have no bone or rib or skull, but was one vast pulpy, undulating mass."
This book is one hundred pages of excitement and thrill.
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