Casting Shadows: A graphic adaptation and poetry inspired by the work of Robert Louis Stevenson with links to accompanying resources for students and teachers

A graphic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, ‘The Beach of Falesá’ by British artist, Simon Grennan alongside two poems also inspired by the story by Samoan/Aotearoan poet Selina Tusitala Marsh. The adaptation is the outcome of the AHRC funded research project, Remediating Stevenson: Decolonizing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific fiction through graphic adaptation, arts education and community engagement. The book contains a wordless graphic adaptation; a summary of the story in modern English; ‘Uma’s Sestina’ and ‘Uma’s Vilanelle’, by Selina Tusitala Marsh; an illustrated biography of Stevenson and his relationship to the Pacific by Jack Brougham, as well as an outline of, and link to, teaching resources developed by Scotdec for use in Scottish classrooms at Curriculum for Excellence Level 4.