by Gerald Durrell · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405881968
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«My Family and Other Animals» is the graded reader by Gerald Durrell, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (56 pages, in English).
The narrative recalls Gerald Durrell's childhood when his family moves to Corfu, a Greek island. Young Gerald is passionate about animals and fills the house with scorpions, spiders, birds and snakes; these unexpected guests cause absurd situations with his eccentric relatives.
Penguin Readers collection, level 3, in its second edition (2008). The original work was published in 1956 and opens Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language (ELT/ESL) looking for level-adapted readers.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
