The story of headstrong 10-year-old foster child Red, who stows away on an alien spaceship and is marooned on a deserted planet with a menagerie of misfit aliens.
A young man awakens on an island, alone and seriously injured, with no memory, and as he searches for his identity he finds himself caught between two notorious pirates battling for a legendary treasure reportedly hidden by monks.
Babar, his family, and the Old Lady are shipwrecked on what seems to be a desert island, but soon they have made a new friend who calms their fears and introduces them to his pleasant way of life.
sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations
Shakespeare, William
2004
Presents William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and includes excerpts from its sources, eighteen works of criticism by writers ranging from John Dryden to Barbara Fuchs, and seventeen works based on the play by such authors as Percy Shelley and Ted Hughes.
Taking refuge on the cliffs above the beach during a ferocious storm, the castaway monkeys finally have proof that they are not alone on the island when they come across a masked monkey stunned by lightning and decide to help him.
Adapts Jonathan Swift's novel in which an Englishman's voyages carry him to Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, and to Brobdingnag, a land of giants.
Recounts the stories of survivors from the 1500s to the present investigating their moral dilemmas, personalities, and influence on society, literature, and art.
