3.26 Stars from 47 GoodReaders
**SPOILERS** **SPOILERS**
I FEEL I need to talk about the plot in this book so I'm giving you a heads-up that I will be spilling the beans.
THE PIRATE'S BED struck
me as a cute story that would work best for my crew as a bedtime read.
The book begins by talking about the pirate and how he dreams and snores
at night, and how the tossing seas don't bother him a bit. Which is in
quite a contrast to his bed, which finds it all very unnerving.
Pirate and Bed are soon parted and what threw me for a loop is that we left the pirate behind on a nice island and followed Bed on it's adventure!
Pirate and Bed are soon parted and what threw me for a loop is that we left the pirate behind on a nice island and followed Bed on it's adventure!
At
first bed is delighted to be free of the pirate who snores and never
changes his socks. But then as days past, even though he has fun with
dolphins and seagulls Bed begins to lament his loss, his not having a
purpose.
Fortunately for Bed, he is found and begins to be used by little boys who dream of being pirates.
The
ending of this story is really quite sentimental and cute and is by-far
the best part of the story. The pirate's dreams are all well and good
but the book gets muddied down a bit when it comes to the bed's
adventures --even though I like it's large goofy eyes.
The ending though, with the bed getting handed down from boy-grown-to-father to boy is very nice. As is the sentiment that children will always have their own big adventurous dreams... even if they aren't about pirates.
ARTWORK
As you can see from the sample pages the artwork is 'busy' and active, with complicated lines and textures. Generally speaking very young booklovers like simpler images, so I would say that the art is more suited for Kindergarteners and older kids.
LANGUAGE
There are probably going to be some new words for you to introduce. In fact, over at GoodReads some of the mothers were not very happy with all the new vocabulary. Words like: sickle-shaped and unencumbered.
What I usually do is to just read the story and not stop to define any words the first time through unless they ask what a word means. Children are fairly clever at putting words into context. But that said, sometimes they are wrong. So what I do is to pick one or two new words and define them during a reading session. Then the next time we read the book I ask them if they remember what the word means. In subsequent readings I'll choose a new word and start the cycle again.
The ending though, with the bed getting handed down from boy-grown-to-father to boy is very nice. As is the sentiment that children will always have their own big adventurous dreams... even if they aren't about pirates.
ARTWORK
As you can see from the sample pages the artwork is 'busy' and active, with complicated lines and textures. Generally speaking very young booklovers like simpler images, so I would say that the art is more suited for Kindergarteners and older kids.
LANGUAGE
There are probably going to be some new words for you to introduce. In fact, over at GoodReads some of the mothers were not very happy with all the new vocabulary. Words like: sickle-shaped and unencumbered.
What I usually do is to just read the story and not stop to define any words the first time through unless they ask what a word means. Children are fairly clever at putting words into context. But that said, sometimes they are wrong. So what I do is to pick one or two new words and define them during a reading session. Then the next time we read the book I ask them if they remember what the word means. In subsequent readings I'll choose a new word and start the cycle again.
This seems to work without making the whole process too tedious.
So fun book. I won this one at LibraryThing and want to thank them for the giveaways they sponsor. I don't win anything often but it's still a great way to be introduced to new books that are coming out.
Pam~
THE PIRATE'S BED
by Nicola Winstanley
illustrations by Matt James
Reading Information:
Page Count: 32
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