Around The World In Eighty Days

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As you know, “Around the World in Eighty Days” is a very famous adventure novel by the great French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873: “Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts Jours”. This is my free interpretation with my Funny Friends the Geese.In the book, the English nobleman Mr. Fogg and his valet Passepartout are going to travel the world to win the bet challenged by Mr. Fogg with the other members of his club to do the trip in 80 days... they are always followed by detective Fix.In my version, loosely based on the original book, the two heroes, played by Geese, follow the same route but with some different stop-overs, such as Paris and Rome, and live all the adventures that eventually will bring them back to London after a round the world tour. Will Mr. Fogg win the bet?All the places visited in the book are real photographs.The aim of the book, in addition to the fun they will have with the geese, is to show children different places in the world, to motivate their interest for geography and prompt them to look for other details of the places shown in the book.The book is part of “The Free Republic of the Animals” series for which I created:1. Educational books, such as The Great Friends learn the Letters , The Great Friends learn the Numbers”, The Great Friends learn the Colors”, The Great Friends learn the Shapes” and “Why do Geese fly in V?”2. My personal versions of famous children's books with animals as subjects such as Cinderella , “Snow White”, “The Jungle Book”, “The Three Musketeers” and this “Around the World in Eighty Days”.3. My personal stories such as “Roma Animalia”, “The Goosy Family goes to the Enchanted Forest”, “The Great Friends go on a cruise”, “The Great Race”, “The Adventures of Casanova” and the “Animal Museum”.All the images are not illustrations but they consist of real photographs both for the backgrounds and the animals.