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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. New York : MacMillan, 1962. Reviewed by Chris S., Rundlett Middle School.
In this book, a man named Gulliver from England goes on a journey but he gets shipwrecked. He gets captured by a bunch of little people and they tie him down. He ends up being friends with them and learns their language. But he eats so much more than they have that he is a threat to their environment. They decide to send him away or else they must kill him. Gulliver decides to leave. He returns to England, gets married and has two children. One day he leaves on another ship. Again he is shipwrecked but this time he is on a land where the people are so much bigger than he is. It's kind of confusing because it's a long time ago and he stays his size but keeps running into people who are a different size than him which makes it kind of interesting. The giants take him in as part of their family and their daughter is his nurse. On day they bring him to the city and the Queen buys him so he leaves that country again and he ends up in a country which is inhabited by horses and monkeys. He learns the horses language. To find out what happens, read Gulliver's Travels.