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Paperback Abel's Island: (Newbery Honor Book) Book

ISBN: 0312371438

ISBN13: 9780312371432

Abel's Island: (Newbery Honor Book)

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William's Steig's Abel's Island tells the story of a mouse who gets swept away from his beloved wife--a truly timeless classic about life's simple pleasures.

Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home, and a lovely wife, Amanda. But one stormy August day, furious flood water carry him off and dump him on an uninhabited island. Despite his determination and stubborn resourcefulness--he tried crossing the river with boats and ropes and even on stepping-stones--Abel can't find a way to get back home.

Days, then weeks and months, pass. Slowly, his soft habits disappear as he forages for food, fashions a warm nest in a hollow log, models clay statues of his family for company, and continues to brood on the problem of how to get across the river--and home.

Abel's time on the island brings him a new understanding of the world he's separated from. Faced with the daily adventure of survival in his solitary, somewhat hostile domain, he is moved to reexamine the easy way of life he had always accepted and discovers skills and talents in himself that hold promise of a more meaningful life, if and when he should finally return to Mossville and his dear Amanda again.

Abel's Island is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1977 Newbery Honor Book. It was adapted to a short animated film directed by Michael Sporn in 1988.

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Rated 5 stars
Abel’s Island

Mouse chasing down wife’s shawl that got blown in the wind. A freak strong wind blows him into a raging river that sends to a deserted island. Repeated attempts to swim back to civilization proves hopeless until a final attempt a year later proves successful

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A great book!!!!!!

It started out as a slow book but it got better. Abel's island was a good book. Abel's Island is about a small mouse who gets stranded on an island while trying to save a scarf for his new wife in a hurricane, and the wind drags him to a piece of wood that has a rusted nail sticking out of it. Then the piece of wood drags him off to a river that has a waterfall at the end of it. He falls down the waterfall and gets so...

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A deceptively simple, very sophisticated book

I read this to my Grade 4 students at the beginning of every school year, and they are totally entranced by it. Even though Abel is a newly married adult mouse, it is a very much a story geared to the growing independence of 8 to 10 year olds. Stranded on an island for a year, the snobby, cultured Abel, who dearly loves champagne and caviar, must learn to eat wild foods and fend for himself. William Steig's books are always...

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Refreshingly simple and easy paced.

I am an adult, but I love well written children's books. They can pack mystery, adventure, and other genre, but are quicker reads. Abel's Island is an outstanding example of the perfect children's book for adults. Newly married and stylish, Abel gets swept away in a rain storm when he attempts to retrieve his bride's lovely scarf. After nearly drowning, and soaked to the bone, Abel finds himself on a remote island and...

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Abel's Island

Abel's Island By William Steig This book should be known as one of the most fascinating books in the US. William Steig has a very big vocabulary and definitely proves it in this novel. The introduction of this book caught my attention as soon as I picked it up. It started out when he and his beautiful wife were out on a luxurious picnic. Then all of a sudden, a massive storm rolls in and wipes away...

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