Please note: This title is heavily abridged and aimed at children but, the Amazon title doesn't tell you this. From the inside cover of the book:"This Great classic for Children by Dalmation press has been carefully condensed and adapted from the original version ... We kept the well-known phrases for you. We kept the author's style. And we kept the important imagery and heart of the tale."With its large font and many illustrations the book comes out to 181 pages; whereas, the Sterling Classic unabridged with its regular sized font and no illustrations comes out to 232 pages. This gives an indication of how condensed this version is.This one has its place as a kids version and should be clearly marked as such.

the provider failed to say it was an abridged item and for children. It was a waste of money

"Treasure island" was a hard book to understand at my age (12). Its sentences were written in old English, which got you confused. The sentences were also pretty long. There word choice was hard and confusing. On page 118 the 4th sentence has like three hard words. The description was good but at times the plot was confusing. A significant event that happened was when the mutineers attacked their ship and killed Flint.My personal opinion of this book is I thought it was bad and hard to understand. It was written so far back that the old English was so confusing. It seemed like there were like ten different things happening at one time. So a good age for a reader of this book would be around thirteen and up. Twelve year olds could read it to if you're a good reader. But if your not that great of a reader than you might think the book is confusing like I did. So all in all, I would give the book a three on a one through ten scale.

This book is extremly confusing and i found myself thrusted into a world i had no idea about. I respect the authors writing style but as a person knowing nearly nothing about the world of pirates, i found myself not wanting to read any further than the first 10 pages. This is truly sad, as i am a fan of classic novels.

I just got finished reading this book. I can't believe this was called a classic this book could barely hold my attention! The only one I liked was Captin Flint because I like birds but besides that I wouldn't read it! wait untill your older! my class read it and no one liked it! Alot of people told me that this book shouldn't be recommended to kids who don't like sea adventure, prirates, or anything under that category!

I read the first 40 pages or so and it didn't grab me. The narrator isn't described, there's no texture, no detail. It just jumps into the story too quickly and I didn't feel anything about the characters or interest in the plot.