BookAges 12–13
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719
ProtestantBritish
Shipwrecked with only what he can pull from the wreck, Crusoe builds a house, plants corn by the phases of the moon, and cuts a notch in a post for every day. Later he meets Friday. The notches are the part a child remembers longest.
A note to parents
Friday’s story carries 1719 assumptions about race and conversion. Read it when the child can talk about those parts afterward.
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