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Treasure Island — Content Guide for Parents

By Roy Thomas, Robert Louis StevensonMarvel Worldwide, Incorporated2008ISBN 9780785125945150 pages
Treasure Island

Found in this book

  • ViolenceCentral
  • Scary contentSupporting
  • Race & cultureBrief

Not found

  • Religion
  • Profanity
  • Climate
  • Sexual content
  • Gender roles
  • Gender & orientation

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Religion

PRESENT

Contains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.

About this book

'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' With this sinister snatch of piratical song echoing along the English coast, the mysterious Billy Bones ushers young Jim Hawkins into an undreamed-of world of danger and adventure on the far-flung, mist-shrouded Treasure Island. And over it all looms the towering shadow of the most famous corsair of them all-- the ever-scheming, intriguing, and enigmatic Long John Silver.

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Treasure Island appropriate for a 7-year-old?

    The story runs on mutiny, sword, knife and gun fights, murders and a battle at the stockade, and the boy narrator kills a pirate who attacks him. Threatening pirates, a blind menacing figure, deaths seen through a boy's eyes and a pirate attack on the boy make parts of the story tense and frightening.

  • Does Treasure Island have violence?

    Found (Central): The story runs on mutiny, sword, knife and gun fights, murders and a battle at the stockade, and the boy narrator kills a pirate who attacks him.

  • Does Treasure Island have scary content?

    Found (Supporting): Threatening pirates, a blind menacing figure, deaths seen through a boy's eyes and a pirate attack on the boy make parts of the story tense and frightening.

  • Does Treasure Island have religion?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Treasure Island have race & culture?

    Found (Brief): The text uses some old-fashioned racial terms for people, such as "negroes" and "blacks".

  • Does Treasure Island have profanity?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Treasure Island have climate?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Treasure Island have sexual content?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Treasure Island have gender roles?

    Not found in the sources we checked.

  • Does Treasure Island have gender & orientation?

    Not found in the sources we checked.