(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Scott McKowen. These classic stories are presented in unabridged formats. A handful of scratchboard illustrations in addition to a repeating chapter heading spot illustration accompany each story. A ribbon bookmark is attached. The books conclude with some generic open-ended questions. Review includes these titles: The Jungle Book, Frankenstein, Gulliver's Travels, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

(4) 4-6 Dorling Kindersley Classics series. Illustrated by Martin Hargreaves. The weighty prose and social satire of Swift's novel are probably beyond the grasp of most contemporary children, so this adaptation shortens and simplifies the original work and provides margin notes filled with commentary, color photographs, and reproductions that amplify the text. Although they impede the flow of the story, the marginalia are informative and help place the novel in historical context.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta