The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson
by the great American painter
Jean Leohn Huens (1921-1982)

Our next book takes us on an island adventure with Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz, four Swiss boys marooned with their mother and father in the East Indies.  Robinson is not a Swiss name, you say?  It isn't, but the name pays tribute to the equally inconveniently shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe.

This book was written by a Christian pastor Johann David Wyss, who borrows heavily from the educational philosophy of John Jacques Rousseau while at the same time showing us Christian family values, and the virtues of cooperation, stewardship, perseverance, bravery and hope.

This book is probably on your shelf right now, and if not, it is readily available at the Kindle store.  For free!  You can find it here.