Timothy of the Cay - Hardcover

Taylor, Theodore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152883584 ISBN 13: 9780152883584

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers, 1993

Synopsis

In this successor to the bestselling novel The Cay, readers learn about Timothy’s life before he was shipwrecked with the young white boy, Phillip Enright, and about Phillip’s life after his rescue from the cay. “Timothy’s chapters sketch a murky sea of racial prejudice; readers will ache with him at his losses. Phillip’s chapters, in a terse first person, depict the narrowness of his mother’s world with a clarity heightened by Phillip’s blindness. A journey well worth taking.”--Kirkus Reviews

About this title

About the Author:

THEODORE TAYLOR (1921-2006), an award-winning author of many books for young people, was particularly known for fast-paced, exciting adventure novels. His books include the bestseller The Cay, Timothy of the Cay, The Bomb, Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!, Ice Drift, The Maldonado Miracle, and The Weirdo, an Edgar Award winner for Best Young Adult Mystery.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-8-Twenty-four years after publication of The Cay (Doubleday, 1987, 1969), Taylor returns to his story of a young white boy stranded on a Caribbean island with an elderly, resourceful black man. The narrative alternates between Phillip's first-person accounts of what happened to him after his rescue, and flashbacks in the third person telling Timothy's story, starting with his childhood in St. Thomas. In The Cay, readers learned how Phillip came to be on the torpedoed ship Hato; this prequel/sequel adds depth to Timothy's character through its treatment of episodes that led up to that event. The boy's story is less revealing than the man's, and some of it has already been told and is slightly contradicted by dates in the final chapter of The Cay. Faithful in tone, dialect, and characterization to the earlier title, Timothy does not delve as deeply into the theme of the first book. Instead, while it touches on racial prejudice, its focus is more on Phillip's appreciation of his friend and guardian angel, and on the adventurous and touching yarns of the West Indian man's life at sea. Those who enjoyed the earlier book will feel as though they're meeting up with old acquaintances and learning more about them, and will see the story come full circle when Phillip returns-with his sight-to the island.
Susan Knorr, Milwaukee Public Library, WI
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0152883584
• ISBN 13: 9780152883584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176