The Coral Island (Wordsworth Children's Classics)

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Potter, Jane (2007), "Children's Books", in Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair (eds.), The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Professionalism and Diversity 1880–2000, vol.4, Edinburgh University Press, pp.352–367, ISBN 978-0-7486-1829-3 In a few minutes we were all three pushing through the underwood of the forest, headed by Peterkin.

Reiff, Raychel Haugrud (2010), William Golding: Lord of the Flies, Marshall Cavendish, ISBN 978-0-7614-4700-9 No,” I answered, “I do not. Nevertheless, I must confess that strange, unaccountable sounds, such as we have just heard, make me feel a little uneasy.” Inflation Calculator, Bank of England, archived from the original on 22 November 2016 , retrieved 29 September 2018Well, suppose I were to print it and send it to you in the form of a book, would it not be as good and useful as ever?” So,” said Peterkin, “we seem to have everything ready prepared to our hands in this wonderful island—lemonade ready bottled in nuts, and loaf-bread growing on the trees!” Surprisingly for a YA book, 'The Coral Island' has some beautiful passages. I'm sharing some of them below for your reading pleasure.

And suppose I were to write the account in a letter instead of telling you in words, would that be less useful?” Oh dear!” he sighed; “I would not care a button for the cooking of our victuals—perhaps they don’t need it—but it’s so dismal to eat one’s supper in the dark, and we have had such a capital day that it’s a pity to finish off in this glum style. Oh, I have it!” he cried, starting up: “the spy-glass—the big glass at the end is a burning-glass!” A shout of laughter burst from us as we rose to the surface, like three drowned rats, and seized hold of the log. We soon recovered our position, and sat more warily; while Peterkin secured the fish, which had well-nigh escaped in the midst of our struggles. It was little worth having, however. But, as Peterkin remarked, it was better than the smouts he had been catching for the last two or three days; so we laid it on the log before us, and having re-baited the line, dropped it in again for another.

CHAPTER VII.

Chapter Ten. Make discovery of many excellent roots and fruits—The resources of the coral island gradually unfolded—The banyan tree—Another tree which is supported by natural planks—Water-fowl found—A very remarkable discovery, and a very peculiar murder—We luxuriate on the fat of the land. So there are!” cried Peterkin, who, being of a very unobservant nature, had been too much taken up with other things to notice anything so high above his head as the fruit of a palm-tree. But whatever faults my young comrade had, he could not be blamed for want of activity or animal spirits. Indeed, the nuts had scarcely been pointed out to him when he bounded up the tall stem of the tree like a squirrel, and in a few minutes returned with three nuts, each as large as a man’s fist.