This book, full of adventure, danger, and most of all, exciting discoveries and dangerous endeavors, will capture your imagination immediately.

Synopsis

 

Shipwrecked passengers on a deserted island: how will they survive? After their ship founders at sea, the Robinsons—father, mother, and four sons—find themselves stranded in an uninhabited, idyllic land. Young readers will enjoy watching them handle every crisis with cleverness and skill.

 

Biography

Johann Wyss (1743–1818) was a Swiss pastor who devised the idea of the island in The Swiss Family Robinson as a way to entertain and instruct his four sons.
John Seelye is a graduate research professor at the University of Florida. He has edited a number of Penguin Classics, including Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

professor at the University of Florida. He has edited a number of Penguin Classics, including Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.