Moby-Dick
The Abridged Teacher Edition
Publisher Description
This copy of Moby-Dick is limited to half the length of the original. It is reduced in order to make it more accessible to teachers and students. There are a number of interactive elements, including study guide questions, vocabulary quizzes, multiple-choice quizzes, research elements, and a very large glossary.
As a teacher, you can stream this book to a projector. Students can also download the book. It includes audio for each page to help students who are auditory learners.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The great white resurfaces in this gripping, comic book style retelling. Comic-strip veterans Schwartz and Giordano condense Melville's leviathan tale into an action-packed, 48-page adventure. Despite forgoing Melville's "Call me Ishmael" first-person narrative and sensory details, this retelling closely adheres to the original plot, including some pivotal scenes absent from Allan Drummond's spare but entertaining 1997 Moby Dick. The dense story clips along, thanks to concise but appealingly hammy storytelling and melodramatic drawings, plus multiple panels that quicken the pace. When Ishmael meets Queequeg, for instance, the author squeezes out every drop of suspense: "There in the dimly lit room looms the forbidding image of Queequeg... harpoon at the ready, poised to sink its sharp head into his shaking body!!" Giordano ratchets up the tension with a series of close-ups of Ishmael's terrified face as he awakens to the "savage" in his rented room. The brooding, dark-toned panels exude imminent danger an ideal milieu for Captain Ahab's doomed voyage. The book also provides a brief biography of Melville, as well as facts about whaling and New Bedford, Mass., the city that commissioned this retelling in celebration of the 150th anniversary (in 2001) of Moby Dick's original publication. Ages 8-up.
