Atlantis: The Lost Empire: A Read-Aloud Storybook

by Walt Disney Company and Catherine Hapka

Book Overview

Atlantis, the story of an explorer's search for an underwater world, makes a great read-aloud storybook. Full-color illustrations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736410848
• ISBN13: 9780736410847
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Random House Disney
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 6 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 6

Customer Reviews

An appealing mix of action and solid characterization

Parents and children are encouraged to enjoy this 'read aloud' storybook together. Atlantis: The Lost Empire holds the classic Disney illustrations and a very lively plot parents will appreciate - an appealing mix of action and solid characterization for the very young as well as those with some basic reading skills.

mystirios

it is great , its for people who like reading alot.This book has inspierd me me to write another book just like it .

Great Cover Nice Book

This is very good for a book of this type. I liked the way the story unfolded. It is well written but I wished that the pictures had more detail.

Quick "car read"

My son wrote the following mini-review:Young Milo Thatch sets out with a crew of people to find Atlantis. Their sub is downed by a gigantic metal crab. Escaping in sub-pods, the crew -- what's left of it -- makes camp. Milo stumbles into a cave, finding the entrance to the lost empire, Atlantis. Will Thatch live to tell the tale? Find out in this extraordinary book.A great read for "junk entertainment." It moves right along; it's easy to read and enjoyable. I read it in less than a day. Its 14-point type makes this junior novelization of the Disney movie (released today) a great book for the car. For other books that fit this description, check out Episode I (kid's version), Titan AE (the junior novelization), and the Animorph series.

Hope the movie is as exciting as the book!

Since there was no actual standard book for Atlantis, I found myself buying the junior novelization. The story is taken from the actual screenplay from which the movie is based on. We start with a small backstory to the destruction of Atlantis, and then fastforward to the year 1914, where Museum Linguist Milo Thatch is proposing that a search be mounted to find the Lost Continent. However, none of the museum's staff thinks the legend is true. Milo gets a big surprise when he is asked to visit a wealthy man who knew his grandfather. There, he finds the Shepherd's Journal, a collection of text giving the location of Atlantis. The wealthy tycoon then funds Milo's expedition with a number of people, including a medical officer, engineer, a demolitions expert, and more. There is more to the story, but I don't want to ruin the entire thing. There is plenty of action, and some areas are only written vaguely as if we are meant to skip over several areas, but in all, a nice overview. Probably the one thing ... was their choices for the 8 color photographs in the book from the film. Many of them don't quite convey the types of involving images, but the story(at about 126 pages) should make for an interesting read.