Gulliver's Travels facts for kids
Gulliver's Travels, is a 1726 fictional satire by Jonathan Swift. The novel follows main character Lemuel Gulliver and his journey to four countries.
The four countries are Lilliput, a land of little people, Brobdingnag, a land of big people, Laputa, a land of intelligent but useless people, and Houyhnhnm, a land of horses.
Swift wrote the novel for adults to show that some people and governments were wrong. The story was intended to make them change.
In 2010, a movie version was made starring Jack Black.
Images for kids
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Mural depicting Gulliver surrounded by citizens of Lilliput.
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Gulliver exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer (painting by Richard Redgrave)
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Gulliver discovers Laputa, the floating/flying island (illustration by J. J. Grandville)
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Gulliver in discussion with Houyhnhnms (1856 illustration by J.J. Grandville).
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The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver by James Gillray (1803), (satirising Napoleon Bonaparte and George III). Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gulliver and a giant, a painting by Tadeusz Pruszkowski (National Museum in Warsaw).
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Comic book cover by Lilian Chesney
See also
In Spanish: Los viajes de Gulliver para niños
