Student Book Review:

by: Daniel DeFoe

Review done by:

Travis Lee
Grade 6
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY

One of the great classics I read this year was Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe.
Robinson Crusoe was a great book. When Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked, he has no idea what to do and where he is. He learns that there are goats on the island that can provide him with meat and he eventually learns how to domesticate them so he get milk. The book is mostly examples like this that show how Robinson Crusoe survives on this island for decades. That is the main plot of the book.
This book was interesting to me for many reasons. It held me with interest in Robinson Crusoe's adventures. For example on one of his adventures he was climbing a mountain on his island when he saw down on the beach there were people. This came as a surprise to him, because for about ten years, he hadn't seen any kind of human life on the island. so he decided to go and investigate. When he got there he found that these people where savages and they were preparing to have a feast. Another way it held my interest was the greatly descriptive adjectives he used to describe his everyday life. One of the descriptions would be like "His birch bark white hair waved in the wind like fields of grain on a blustery spring day."
I chose this book because it is a very good survival story. It tells you how he made things like a shelter on the first night he stayed there on the island and then it tells how his two room house with a wall to his lean over from the first night.
I would recommend this book to any one who likes a good survival story. If you read it, you won't be able to put it down I'll guarantee it!