Ha! I can vouch that the <=7 crowd are still rotten enough to thoroughly enjoy Treasure Island!
If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, to W.E. Henley about TREASURE ISLAND (24 Aug 1881)

Matthew Bevis on TREASURE ISLAND & some of its spinoffs, in the @lrb.co.uk, 25 Oct 2012
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