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Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Treasure Island from the world's leading experts.
Richard Branson Founder/Virgin GroupToday is World Book Day, a wonderful opportunity to address this #ChallengeRichard sent in by Mike Gonzalez of New Jersey: Make a list of your top 65 books to read in a lifetime. (Source)
Barack Obama Former USA PresidentDuring a trip to a public library in Washington’s Anacostia neighborhood in 2015, Obama shared some of his childhood favorites with a group of young students. He also read (and acted out) Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak to kids at the White House in 2014. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (Source)
Michael Morpurgo This is the first book that I ever read on my own and I take great pleasure and pride in that. It was the first book where I really identified strongly with the boy Jim in it. He was about the same age as I was when I began reading it. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Treasure Island is ranked in the following categories:
- #76 in 8-Year-Old
- #29 in Action Adventure
- #17 in Adventure Fiction
- #33 in Annotations
- #25 in Antiques
- #70 in Boy
- #43 in Children's Boat
- #29 in Children's Classics
- #60 in Classic
- #81 in Classical
- #36 in Free
- #45 in Free e-Book
- #73 in Kindle
- #26 in Leather
- #26 in Leather Bound
- #22 in Ocean
- #35 in Penguin Classics
- #45 in Period
- #29 in Project Gutenberg
- #70 in Public
- #20 in Public Domain
- #87 in Quest
- #90 in Read Aloud
- #75 in Ruby
- #25 in Sailing
- #20 in Ships
- #90 in UK
- #71 in Victorian
- #50 in Water