With inimitable style, Steig tells the story of a mouse, Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, who gets swept away in a driving rainstorm while rescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on a river island for a year. Abel isn't just any mouse. He's a fastidious Edwarian dandy whose inherited wealth ensures the leisurely comforts he takes such pleasure in. But Able's high-toned life of leisure conceals a soul full of true grit:once faced with the necessity of surviving, Abel rises to the challange.
year: 1976, 2007, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1988, 1996, 1987, 1977
call number/section: 1000, 920
subjects: mice, fiction, islands, survival, survival skills, large type books, survival fiction, islands fiction, mice fiction, cartoons and comics, cartoons and caricatures, juvenile films, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, mice fiction, survival -juvenile fiction
Editions
Steig, William
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 43
Steig, William
Square Fish/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 3
Steig, William
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1985)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 3
Steig, William
Cornerstone Books (1990)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 0
Steig, William
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 3
Steig, William
Recorded Books (1994)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 0
Steig, William
Random House Home Video (1988)
Abel the mouse is a castaway on an uninhabited island. He finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 2
Steig, William
SunburstBook (1996)
A wealthy mouse, used to all the comforts of life is swept away in a driving rainstorm and spends a year on a deserted island. He rises to the challenge of surviving. a Newberry honor book.
Schools: 0
Random House Home Video (1987)
Enjoy this William Steig's wonderfully romantic Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, an elegant mouse who, while picnicking with his beloved wife, Amanda, gets caught in a furious storm and is swept away to a desert island. Abel must learn to survive using his wits and his awakened creativity.
Schools: 0
Steig, William
Bantam Books (1977)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 0
William Steig
Random House (1987)
Animated version of the story of an elegant mouse who, while picnicking with his beloved wife, Amanda, gets caught in a furious storm and is swept away to a desert island.
Schools: 0
Steig, William
With inimitable style, Steig tells the story of a mouse, Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, who gets swept away in a driving rainstorm while rescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on a river island for a year. Abel isn't just any mouse. He's a fastidious Edwarian dandy whose inherited wealth ensures the leisurely comforts he takes such pleasure in. But Able's high-toned life of leisure conceals a soul full of true grit:once faced with the necessity of surviving, Abel rises to the challange.
Schools: 0
William Steig
Prim and proper mouse Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint gets swept away in a rainstorm and is stranded on an island for a year. Will he survive in the wilderness?.
Schools: 1
Steig, William
Bantam Books (1977)
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
Schools: 1
Steig, William
The story of Hassam di Chirico Flint, a mouse, who gets swept away in a driving rainstorm while rescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on an island for a year.
Schools: 1
Steig, William
Schools: 1
Steig, William
With inimitable style, Steig tells the story of a mouse, Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, who gets swept away in a driving rainstorm while rescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on a river island for a year. Abel isn't just any mouse. He's a fastidious Edwarian dandy whose inherited wealth ensures the leisurely comforts he takes such pleasure in. But Able's high-toned life of leisure conceals a soul full of true grit:once faced with the necessity of surviving, Abel rises to the challange.
Schools: 1