by Johann David Wyss · Ladybird Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780721405988
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«Swiss Family Robinson» is the adventure novel by Johann David Wyss, published by Ladybird Books in hardcover (50 pages, in English).
A Swiss pastor, his wife and their four children are shipwrecked on a desert island and must fend for themselves to survive. The family builds a home in a tree, tames animals and learns to make use of the island's resources while facing storms, wild animals and unexpected dangers.
It belongs to the Ladybird Children's Classics collection; this version, adapted by Harry Stanton, features illustrations by Brian Price Thomas.
For young readers approaching classic narrative and survival stories.
Johann David Wyss was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (1812). He was born and died in Bern. It is said that he was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children. The Swiss Family Robinson was first published in German in 1812, then translated into English two years later. The book was edited by his son, Johann Rudolf Wyss, a scholar known for writing the Swiss national anthem, Rufst du, mein Vaterland. Another of Wyss's sons, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, illustrated the book. Johann David Wyss died in 1818 at the age of 74. He lived longer than his son Johann Rudolf, who would die twelve years later at the age of 48.
