Treasure Island

This book is way too scary for bedtime! The muppet version (And A Child's Garden of Verses) made me forget just how creepy Robert Louis Stevenson can be. I don't know why since The Master of Ballentrae gave me nightmares when I read it in my early 20's. We had just finished Secret Water by Arthur Ransome and as are all of his books it was a fairly in depth study. This one covered mapping and surveying and I thought Treasure Island would be a good follow-up and get us started in our Chesterton studies for the year. I'm anxiously awaiting his essay on Stevenson to arrive from the American Chesterton Society.In the mean time I am keeping a weather eye for blind, piratical, beggars bearing black spots....