1. ENGLISH
CHILDREN
LITERATURE

2. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
 Wr i t t e n b y J o n a t h a n S w if t ( 3 o
N o v e m b e r 16 6 7 - 19
O c t o b e r 17 4 5 ) d u r i n g t h e y e a r 17 13 - 17 2 5
( A ug us t) . P u b lis h e d b y t h e
f i r s t t i m e o n O c t o b e r 17 2 6 ,
w ic h w a s c o n s is t in g o f t w o V o lu m e s
a n d la t e r w a s p u b lis h e d
in a v o lu m e d iv id id e d in t o f o u r
p a r t s , e a c h w it h r e f e r e n c e t o e a c h o f
t h e t r ip s in w ic h G u lliv e r
e mba rke d.
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 It s o r i g i n a l t i t l e w a s : “T ravels into Several R emote
N ations of the world, in four parts. B y L emuel

3. Gulliver's travels
 ARGUMENT: Th e b o o k f o l l o w t h e a d v e n t u r e s
e x p e r ie n c e d b y E n g lis h s u r g e o n w h o s e p a s s io n is
t r a v e lin g , t o t a k e o n e o f t h o s e t r ip s , a n d w h e n h e w a k e s
s h ip w r e c k e d o n a n is la n d is u n k n o w n . F r o m t h a t m o m e n t
b e g in s a s e r ie s o f o c c u r r e n c e s in w h ic h it h a s t o f a c e a ll
k in d s o f c ir c u m s t a n c e s .
 The book is divided into four volumes that make up the "four voyages" that made ​Guilliver:
 -T ravel to L illiput: First island that comes and where it is captured by a race of people of
size but him. He manages to escape from there with several companions.
 -T ravel to B robdingnag: After escaping from the first island, they are forced to land on the
island of Brobdingnag to get water, but the inhabitants of that island, inhabited by giants,
and leave you pesiguen left at the mercy of those people. Once again manages to escape.
-T ravel to L aputa, B alnibarbi, L uggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan: The ship
where traveling is attacked by pirates and again wrecked the ship where it
travels. On this trip he acentecen various adventures in different island.
-T ravel to the land of the H ouyhnhnms: When attempting to return home, it is again
attacked by pirates who decide to mutiny and drop on the first island they find,
which is inhabited by horses. After another attempt to return home (England) at the
end he succeeds, but is unable to reconcile with life among human and becomes a
hermit, avoiding as much as possible to his family and his wife, to spend several
hours a day talking to the horses in their stables.

4. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR
A lt h o u g h it is o f t e n c o n s id e r e d a
c h ild r e n ' s p la y , is a c t u a ll a
f e r o c io u s s a t ir e o f s o c ie t y a n d t h e h u m a n
c o n d it io n d is g u is e d a s a t r a v e l
b o o k p ic t u r e s q u e c o u n t r y ( a g e n r e
q u it e c o m m o n a t t h e t im e ) . C a p t a in L e m u e l
G u lliv e r is in p a r a d o x ic a l
s it u a t io n s : a g ia n t a m o n g d w a r f s , a d w a r f
a m o n g g ia n t s a n d a h u m a n b e in g
a s h a m e d o f h is c o n d it io n in
a la n d p o p u la t e d b y w is e h o r s e s t h a t a r e
mo re huma n tha n the me n
t h e m s e lv e s a n d d is t r u s t r ig h t ly
th e re o f.

5. OLIVER TWIST and CHRISTMAS
CAROL
Written by English novelist
Charles Dickens (1835-1936). It was the
second work of this author and was the
first English work which had as a child
star. The first time was published in the
journal "Bentley's Miscellany" by
installments mensaulaes from February
1837 to April 1839.
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES
*“The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club” (1836-1837)
*“David Copperfield” (1849-1850)
*“A Tale of Two Cities” (1959)

6. OLIVER TWIST
ARGUMENT: Relates the English skills of a child, poor and orphan who
has to make a living in the IXX century England. This is to survive in that
Victorian society and the hardships he iterponen after fleeing the
orphanage. London is shown as a city full of mazes and alleys, where the
point is the dirt and crime which is involved, the big factories where they
work day and night for a miserable salary .... is the story of a struggle
for progress in life, the adventures of Oliver Twist, his eagerness to find
a place in society, a place that rightfully belongs, but that has been taken
away from birth.
TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR Dickens mocks the
hypocrisy of his time dealing with these serious issues (such as factories
where working children, adults and seniors in insalubles conditions, filthy
and were treated like scum) with sarcasm and black humor. The novel may
have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose
account of the hardness of his life as a child laborer in a cotton mill was
able to translate perfectly into the role of Oliver, his friends and all that
Victorian society

7. CHRISTMAS CAROL
ARGUMENT: It tells how a shy person and stinging can change your attitude
during this Christmas, it's ghost his best friend to advise you that has to
change his attitude, but Scrooge is indifferent to what he says and Christmas
Day is aperecen three spirits: The Past, which reminds Scrooge children and
young life full of longing before his addiction to work and get rich. The Present
Scrooge does see the current situation of the family of his employee, who
despite their poverty and illness of his son, celebrates CHRISTMAS Like all
people. The Spirit of the Future, silent and somber, shows the most
heartbreaking thing: the fate of the greedy. His house was ransacked for the
poor, the memory of his dead friends and even shows you his own tomb.
TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR It refers to society
Indsutrial England Revolution, in which they had many gains were not content
with what he had but each time they wanted more and finally they became
greedy and insensitive, but nevertheless, those who were materially poor tenaían
wealth that those stingy longed, the heart, the illusion of all.

8. TREASURE ISLAND
Novel written by the Scotthis Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-1894) in 1881. It was published in book for the first
time in 1883, and was originally published,
between 1881-1882,serialized in the children's
magazine "Young Flolk" with the title
"The Sea Cook" or "Treasure Island".
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES
*Prince Otto(1885).
*The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and
Mr Hyde (1886).
*The Black Arrow (1888)
*Island Nights' Entertainments:
“The Bottel Imp" (1891), "The Beach of Falesá”(1892)
and "The Island of Voice” (1893).

9. TREASURE ISLAND
ARGUMENT: The novel tells the tricks that happen to Jim
Hawkins, a boy who one day will make delivery of a secret box
in his father's inn when he dies. Flee to the chest and when
you open it you realize that inside is a hidden treasure map.
Jim, along with a doctor friend and others embark on the
adventure treasure, but before finding it undergoes various
vicissitudes in the island that come, with pirates and some of
the crew of the ship where traveling.
TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR
The novel, despite ifantil address the public and young people,
takes a critical tone and a moral reflection of the protagonist
toward money and ambition, whose moral was to warn the younger
that time, fortune and the money wasn't everything in life

10. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll
(1832-1898). The first publication of this book was done in
1865. The book has a second, less known, called Through the
Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Through the
looking-glass, and what Alice found there, in 1871).

11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
ARGUMENT:It narrates the journey of a girl named Alice, when he
falls through a hole chasing a white rabbit. Once inside this world, Alice
can grow or shrink at will. Go to a race, talk to a blue caterpillar that
helps you grow, is lost in the forest and befriends a cat, take tea with
the Mad Hatter, his friend rabbit and rat small. His friend the cat
helps him out of that forest and opens a door to the castle of the
queen of hearts, there will be judged and sent to cut his throat, but
escapes and starts to run ... and suddenly wakes up and realizes that
everything that has been lived only a dream
TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR
The story is filled with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends, the English
education and political issues of the day. The Wonderland described in
the story is created through mathematical logic games

12. PETER PAN and WENDY
ARGUMENT:Throughout the story are many and varied
anecdotes fabulous, including when Tinkerbell almost died from
eating poison, and a direct confrontation with the enemy of
Peter, the pirate Captain Hook. In the end, Wendy decides
that her real living space in your home is next to his parents
and his brothers carried it back to London, while Peter Pan
remains in Neverland, promising his fellow play back repeatedly
to visit.

13. PETER PAN and WENDY
Written by Scottish novelist
and playwright James Matthew
Barrie (1860 - 1939), he created
the character of Peter Pan based
on the son of his friend
Arthur Llewelyn Davies with whom
he played and decided to recount
those games in a book, Peter Pan
and Wendy (1911), and in a play,
Peter Pan (1904), which then
further developed in a series
of stories and novels

14. THE END
Realizado por:Begoña Flores Gómez.
2º Educación Primaria.