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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne’s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published March 28, 2006
About the author
Lisa Church
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Lisa Church is a mother of three, author of 12 books, graduate of Penn State University, and elementary teacher with over 30 years of experience. She resides in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania with her husband, children, a loyal crazy, a crazy cairn terrier, a cat named Phineas, and a kitten who could set a world-record for loudest and most constant purr.
Church is the author of a parenting guide, numerous curriculum materials, four juvenile fiction pieces, an adult murder mystery, a romance novel, and five abridged novels through Sterling / Barnes & Noble's well known Classic Starts Series. She continues to teach, write, and garner inspiration from her family, friends, and the world around her.
Publications
Everyday Creative Play: Simple Fun Things You Can Do to Help Your Preschooler Learn (Fairview Press, 1998)
Mystery on the Mayflower (PublishAmerica, 2001 & TurtleBack Books, 2002)
Be Careful What You Wish For (Perfection Learning Corporation, 2002)
The Secret of Fairwind Estates, A Silver Dagger Mystery (The Overmountain Press, 2003)
Black Beauty, Retold from the Anna Sewell Original (Sterling, 2005)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Retold from the Jules Verne Original (Sterling, 2006)
Heidi, Retold from the Johanna Spyri Original (Sterling, 2007)
The Jungle Book, Retold from the Rudyard Kipling Original (Sterling, 2008)
Ballet Stories, Retold from the Classic Originals (Sterling, 2010)
Maddie's Secret (Astraea Press, 2013)
And coming soon......
The Diversion, Topaz Publishing
Home Alone, Astraea Press
Lisa Church is a mother of three, author of 12 books, graduate of Penn State University, and elementary teacher with over 30 years of experience. She resides in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania with her husband, children, a loyal crazy, a crazy cairn terrier, a cat named Phineas, and a kitten who could set a world-record for loudest and most constant purr.
Church is the author of a parenting guide, numerous curriculum materials, four juvenile fiction pieces, an adult murder mystery, a romance novel, and five abridged novels through Sterling / Barnes & Noble's well known Classic Starts Series. She continues to teach, write, and garner inspiration from her family, friends, and the world around her.
Publications
Everyday Creative Play: Simple Fun Things You Can Do to Help Your Preschooler Learn (Fairview Press, 1998)
Mystery on the Mayflower (PublishAmerica, 2001 & TurtleBack Books, 2002)
Be Careful What You Wish For (Perfection Learning Corporation, 2002)
The Secret of Fairwind Estates, A Silver Dagger Mystery (The Overmountain Press, 2003)
Black Beauty, Retold from the Anna Sewell Original (Sterling, 2005)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Retold from the Jules Verne Original (Sterling, 2006)
Heidi, Retold from the Johanna Spyri Original (Sterling, 2007)
The Jungle Book, Retold from the Rudyard Kipling Original (Sterling, 2008)
Ballet Stories, Retold from the Classic Originals (Sterling, 2010)
Maddie's Secret (Astraea Press, 2013)
And coming soon......
The Diversion, Topaz Publishing
Home Alone, Astraea Press
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January 30, 2020
A retold text + audio. This is a children's book, but I think the narration was too fast for me! Since I've read, listened to the audio and translated some words and expressions 2 times before, by now I hadn't so many difficulties like in the past, even though I did must go backward some chapters more than once.
May 26, 2016
This book was really well written and fun. This book was adventurous and just fun. I loved the writing and it was exciting. Jules Verne was a dreamer and has an imagination unmatched to most writers today.
May 27, 2015
its cover looks great but it doesn't even mention squid or octopus once and they dont find treasure so i like the book but the cover lies.
October 13, 2014
I read this to my four year old and he was engrossed!! He is obsessed with submarines and wants to visit the Nautilus every week, so this was right up our alley. It was incredible discover that in the 1800's Jules Verne created so many concepts proved to be known and inventions to be used in the future.
July 21, 2009
We read this abridged version for our kid's book club. It was great - action-packed, fast moving, interesting, easy. I skimmed the unabridged version to see what we had missed. Not much. Lots and LOTS of description of underwater life and submarine technology. Not my cup of tea.
January 25, 2013
overall, a decent job of condensing the story, but kinda felt the excitement was drained a bit. still, the 5-year old was riveted, so that's what really matters.
January 7, 2013
Excellent.
Want to read
April 23, 2021this book is an interesting book .It about I and my servant Conseil get done in to sea .We and Ned get in to a submarine ，and the Captain named Nemo .He lived in the sea and eat the food in the sea.we want to get out to the ground but he don't let our go because we discovered his secret—he invent this submarine.
My favorite part is they get out of the ice .I like this part because I think it very passionate and it make me feel how nervous they are.
My favorite character is Captain Nemo.Because I think he nice to friends and he is heroic
If you are some one who like adventure you will like this book .Because this book is very thrilling
My favorite part is they get out of the ice .I like this part because I think it very passionate and it make me feel how nervous they are.
My favorite character is Captain Nemo.Because I think he nice to friends and he is heroic
If you are some one who like adventure you will like this book .Because this book is very thrilling
January 15, 2020
This was the 2nd book we chose to read from the Classic Starts series. We loved the 1st book we read aloud together (Swiss Family Robinson), but this story did not catch our interest as much as the first. It was good to get familiar with this classic, but for now we feel that it's not one of our favorites. We finished the book still wanting to understand more about the mysterious Captain Nemo, why he acted the way he did, what led him to be captain of his ship, why he chose the water world instead of land, etc.
February 20, 2020
Many of you probably know this story. I have never read the original, but this children's version was a small delight. This was a gift from one of my students and I will be keeping it to have accessibility on my bookshelf for struggling readers no matter the age. However, I would love to challenge myself with the original work and analyze its complexity--like the true English major I am!
This is an adventure story about being under the sea and going around the world. What a fun idea, I hope to get to the original some day!
This is an adventure story about being under the sea and going around the world. What a fun idea, I hope to get to the original some day!
November 20, 2022
I've been meaning to read this for about 5 years since the last time I watched Back to the Future Part III, but I picked this version because it was a fourth of the length of the original. I can see why Doc would have enjoyed it in the 1930s but 90 years later this shortened version leaves something to be desired after watching high definition National Geographic Documents in our home theater. The book's 1800's pro- colonialism definitely shows through the main character's hero worship of Captain Nemo.
April 7, 2020
From fighting seven giant squids to almost dying of oxygen, Jules Verne never fails to create an engaging tale. The description was so detailed that I had to download a dictionary on my phone. But even through all of that I learned a lot about the ocean and sea creatures. One of my favorite part is when they were the first men to step foot on the south pole. All in all, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is a book that I shall never miss.
July 26, 2020
Great book for kids but I just could not get past the lack of character development and conflict within this book. Yeah some characters didn't like each other and they did get stuck in an iceberg however, their problems were solved way to easily and the professor's escape was way to easy as well. Will still be a book I read to my kids but for me I could have passed.
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August 13, 2020This book makes me feels like I am about to enter a world of undersea adventure.joining professor Arronax as he set out to investigate monstrous sea creature but encounters something even more exordinary: the mysterious captain nemo and his furturistic submarine . Its a suspenseful journey of danger and discovery .
October 11, 2020
I think this is a good book for parents to read with their kids (ages 6-10) at bedtime or for kids who have started reading longer chapter books to attempt reading on their own. Being both an abridged and translated version at the same time, some of the beauty of this classic might have been lost. Still a good read nonetheless.
June 25, 2017
this book was really nice where I felt as traveling along with them and I had a wonderful under water experience kind of feeling
January 28, 2018
I liked the submarine part. The submarine is technology; I really like technology.
March 18, 2019
I like reading different versions of classics like this one.
July 17, 2019
Still sucks.
July 24, 2019
Such a fun story about a life under the ocean and the submarine and new discoveries. A great story with a of great adventure.
September 28, 2019
150 years later and this book still holds up well.
November 25, 2019
Quick easy read. Made me want to read the adult version. I’m reading that now. Very interesting.
June 22, 2020
A great adaption of classic!
March 12, 2021
A fun audiobook to listen to. I loved how imaginative the Jules Verne must have been to write this book when he did, even if some parts of the story are now obviously untrue.
September 29, 2021
Read with my youngest! 3.5⭐
November 24, 2021
Classic Starts adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story.
January 22, 2022
This was an ok book. I think that the person who adapted it just went sentence by sentence, so it felt kind of choppy. There also was barely any description.
February 1, 2022
I read this book with my 10 year old twins who are reluctant readers. They enjoyed the story and looked forward to our reading time together each night.
July 13, 2022
If you thought this was a good book you should try a book called Daughter of the Deep, by Rick Riordan. It is sorta a sequel to this book.
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