Listening companion
Treasure Island
A Classic Worlds Coloring Adventure
Sixty original illustrations follow Jim Hawkins from the Admiral Benbow Inn to Treasure Island and home again — made to be colored slowly, page by page.
A condensed telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original, following the same journey from the Admiral Benbow to Captain Flint’s treasure.
Listen While You Color
Scan the code in the book, then look at the chapter label at the top of the page you are coloring. Find the same chapter below and press its play button to listen as the adventure unfolds.
Color the pictures as the story unfolds. Each narration follows the same journey as the book, so the scene in front of you matches the part of the story you’re hearing.
Chapters
Chapter 1
The Mysterious Captain
Pictures 1 to 8
A scarred old sailor with an enormous sea chest moves into the Admiral Benbow Inn and asks Jim to watch for a man with one leg. Then a stranger called Black Dog comes looking for him, a sword flashes, Black Dog runs, and the Captain collapses.
Listen
Chapter 2
The Black Spot and the Sea Chest
Pictures 9 to 16
Blind Pew taps his way up the road and hands the Captain the Black Spot. With pirates on the way, Jim and his mother open the sea chest, take only what they are owed, and escape into the dark with a mysterious cloth bundle.
Listen
Chapter 3
The Treasure Map and the Hispaniola
Pictures 17 to 26
The pirates tear the inn apart hunting for the packet, which turns out to hold Captain Flint’s treasure map. Squire Trelawney finds a ship, the Hispaniola, and a cheerful one-legged cook named Long John Silver.
Listen
Chapter 4
Pirates and Treasure Island
Pictures 27 to 35
Hidden in the apple barrel, Jim overhears Silver planning a mutiny. On the island he slips ashore, sees Silver’s friendly smile vanish, and meets Ben Gunn, a marooned sailor who dreams of cheese.
Listen
Chapter 5
The Battle and Jim’s Daring Plan
Pictures 36 to 49
Jim’s friends hold the old log fort against a pirate attack. That night he takes Ben Gunn’s little boat, cuts the Hispaniola loose, outwits Israel Hands and hides the ship — then walks back into a fort full of pirates.
Listen
Chapter 6
Captain Silver and the Treasure
Pictures 50 to 60
Silver protects Jim, shrugs off a Black Spot of his own, and leads the pirates to an empty treasure pit. Ben Gunn has moved Flint’s gold to his cave, Silver slips away with one small bag of it, and the Hispaniola carries Jim safely home.
Listen
Your book, your pace
Color one picture, or a dozen
There is no schedule to keep up with. Put on the chapter that matches the illustration in front of you and stay with it as long as you like — a single page across a whole afternoon, or several in one sitting. Pause, rewind, or set the story aside and color in quiet. The book is yours either way.