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Famous Five Graphic Novel: Five on a Treasure Island Reader Reviews

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Famous Five Graphic Novel: Five on a Treasure Island

This book captures all the scenes from the original books and puts a new, fun and distinctly graphic novel style on them.

This book is good for graphic novel fans. I enjoyed this graphic novel because it had great illustrations. Despite being quite short I found it full of action. It was well written, and I enjoyed the illustrations. The author and illustrator captured the story from the original book well. I found it quite short but despite this it was a particularly enjoyable read. I would recommend it to people aged eight to ten years old. I think the illustrator has captured all the scenes, characters, and locations from the original books. Overall, this book captures all the scenes from the original books and puts a new, fun and distinctly graphic novel style on them.

Barney Clark

This is a great version of a book that we really love. It has all of the excitement and of the original, but told in a shorter and more up-to-date way.

This is a great version of a book that we really loved as a bedtime story. We’ve just finished reading the whole series of the originals so this new version of Five on Treasure Island was perfect timing for us. It has all of the excitement and of the original, but told in a shorter and more up to date way. We love graphic novels as a way of getting the best bits from classic books that can be a bit overly wordy and descriptive, plus this one has been updated a bit to leave out the annoying idea that Anne couldn’t do things that the others could do because she’s a girl. The children are more supportive of each other, which is fab because we didn’t like how in the original they were bullies towards each other and anyone that was poorer or different. George’s Dad is still horrible like in the original, but the children have lots of freedom to go out on boats and explore things, and to outwit the adults. The original had lots of time devoted to describing what the children were eating, which we quite liked, but leaving it out in the graphic novel makes it quicker to read and you get to the action faster. The drawings are excellent at racing you through the story, and there is action throughout the book. We are really happy that this series is now available as graphic novels and can’t wait to collect them all.

Ollie and Toby Hopwood