So many books we think of as children's books are very adult travelogue style. Gulliver's Travel's I don't really get. It's more like a fantasy Darwin's journal than a good kid's story. Oz has Dorothy and Ozma, who are children. Oz has talking pets -- although Toto doesn't talk, the cat and chicken in later books do. But Gulliver's Travel's is about a dad, it seems very adult. British travelogue fiction is definitely a thing! I got sick of Tremeire, although in fairness I also got sick of the Honor Harrington books after awhile; if you're going to learn about the Napoleanic Wars, Trafalgar and Horatio Nelson and all that, but want to enjoy it and include some fun made-up elements, I definitely recommend them. I hope my kids read them and learn a ton about history! But Gulliver's travels doesn't even really accomplish either -- it's not more fun than Darwin's journals, and it's not more educational either. What am I missing? Marie Brennen and the Parasol Protectorate were also quite good old timey British fantasies, if you're into that sort of thing. So what am I supposed to be getting out of Gulliver's Travels?