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Oliver Twist
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by Charles Dickens, Lesley Baxter, and Michael Morpurgo
Sales Rank : 1737979
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Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Dial; 1st edition October 1, 1996
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803719957
ISBN-13: 978-0803719958
Product Dimensions:
11.4 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
A Twist of Beauty An inviting design may inspire readers of a newly abridged edition of Charles Dickens's classic Oliver Twist to join the hero in asking, please sir, for more. Christian Birmingham spots nearly every page of text with a small, charcoal-gray image, and complements important scenes with full-page color illustrations. Birmingham's hues are predominantly deep, somber and gritty, but not without occasional flashes of royal blues and golds. Text is shaded in the faintest yellow, soft on the eye.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8. This attractive, oversized adaptation remains true to the classic in plot and in atmosphere. Even though some minor characters and scenes have been omitted entirely, many lines of dialogue and paragraphs of description, including Nancy's death and Fagin's last hours in a jail cell, are repeated verbatim from Dickens's original, maintaining the ambiance as well as the story line. Readers who are only familiar with the play or movie will be surprised to find Dickens's plot more complicated than the simple version used for stage and screen and may need to do some rereading to realize that things are not what they expected. One fortunate omission from the original is that Fagin is just Fagin, without any ethnic description attached. The text is illustrated with occasional, small, black-and-white drawings and full-page, full-color, dark, moody paintings that add to the atmosphere and help keep readers involved through large, full pages of text. Consider this for all libraries?it's still a great story, and this adaptation may actually get some young people to read it.?Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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