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Loading... How I Became a Pirateby Melinda Long
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book is about a boy name Jeremy who was at the beach with his family. While Jeremy was building a sand castle he was greeted by green teeth pirates and found himself living the pirate life. This book is good; I really enjoyed the pirates’ dialogue and the adventure that took place. This will be a good reading for children to read during their own personal time.  shanlegrand | Oct 28, 2009 |  A little boy named Jeremy Jacob is at the beach and finds pirates. He tries to tell his family but they are all too busy and wont listen to him. He decides to go on an adventure with the pirates. He thinks the pirate life is fun and he doesnt have to use manners. He ends up playing a soccer game with them. He tries to go to bed after a pillow fight, but he cant sleep. He misses bedtime stories and being tucked in. A bad storm comes the next day and during it, Jeremy is forgoteen in all the chaos. He wants to escape the ship and get to soccer practice the next day. This is such a funny book with amazing illustrations. crdutton | Oct 19, 2009 | Reviewed by Allison Fraclose for Kids @ TeensReadToo.com While at the beach, a young boy named Jeremy Jacob looks up from his sand castle to find a pirate ship approaching the beach. He tries to tell his family, but they are all too busy, and no one notices when the pirates pull up in their rowboat and ask Jeremy if they have reached the Spanish Main. When he says no, they are at North Beach, the pirate captain notices Jeremy's sandcastle. They need a good digger, so they invite Jeremy along with them to bury their treasure. Life as a pirate starts out very exciting. Jeremy finds that pirate table manners don't include saying "please" or chewing with mouths closed. He doesn't have to eat vegetables (since there aren't any on board), and he even teaches the pirate crew how to play soccer before the ball ends up overboard in a shark's mouth. After a hardy pillow fight, Jeremy heads to bed without brushing his teeth...but he can't sleep. Pirates don't tuck in, or read bedtime stories. And when a terrible storm hits the ship, Jeremy is forgotten in the chaos, and being a pirate isn't much fun anymore. He'll have to do some quick thinking to escape the ship and get back home in time for soccer practice the next day. A hilarious read with goofy, guffaw-inducing illustrations, this whacky tale of a modern boy pirate teaches the important lesson that getting what you wish for is not always best. Even the bravest little pirates may realize after reading that a safe life at home, watching pirates in books and movies, may be more appealing than an actual life out at sea. (  ) GeniusJen | Oct 11, 2009 | In this brightly illustrated story, Jeremy Jacob is spending a day at the beach with his family when he sees a pirate ship on the horizon. They ask Jeremy to join their piracy and help them bury their treasure. Jeremy lives on their boat and learns all about being a pirate, but finds out that it's not all it's cracked up to be. Here is a great packet for teachers to use along with this book: http://www.harcourtbooks.com/Images/P... ( ) mlmcallister | Sep 20, 2009 | This is a great book for children intrested in tall tales and adventrue. A young boy joins a band of pirates and enjoys their cavalier lifestyle. However, he begins to miss the comforts of home. He helps the pirates by providing them with a spot in his backyard to bury their treasure. A great read for older children and those who are just beginning to develop an intrest in books. ruthe002 | Sep 16, 2009 | 
Landlubbers, take heart! Here's a tale of a lad who sets sail and finds he prefers the comforts of home. Equipped with pail and shovel, young Jeremy Jacob is happily constructing a sandcastle and moat when his day at the beach takes an unexpected turn. A ship sails in with a Jolly Roger raised on the mast, and the boy narrator runs to tell his parents. As with his No, David! and its sequels, Shannon plays off the straight text. "I tried to tell Mom, but she was busy slathering my baby sister with sunblock" inspires an illustration of the mother being assaulted by the infant (which also explains why she doesn't notice the boy's prolonged absence). When the crew hits the beach, they discover they're lost ("We must have taken a wrong turn at Bora Bora"), note Jeremy's skills with a shovel ("We've been needin' a digger like yourself. We've a chest of treasure to bury") and whisk the willing boy away. The buccaneers prove an agreeable lot at first, teaching him sea chanteys, pirate lingo and table manners ("Down the hatch!"; "Hand over the meat!"). But when bedtime rolls around (Shannon depicts a pillow fight in full swing), the pirates won't tuck him in ("No tucking!") or read him a story. The text's vigorous chorus-like repetitions invite aspiring maties to join in, and Long's dry, tongue-in-cheek humor serves as an ideal springboard for Shannon's gleefully madcap illustrations. The pirates are about as ragtag and dentally challenged a group of scurvy salts as ever sailed the high seas, and a clever visual surprise brings the shipboard adventure to a close. Ages 3-7. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Amazon.com (ISBN 0152018484, Hardcover)Young Jeremy Jacob is plucked from obscurity while innocently constructing a sand castle and is thrust into a brand-new life as a pirate. Captain Braid Beard and his crew recognize Jeremy as an exceptionally talented digger and they happen to be in desperate need of a digger to help them bury a treasure chest. Jeremy thinks a pirate life sounds like fun, as long as he’s back the next day in time for soccer practice, and so he goes along with the ragtag group of seafaring thugs (with hearts of gold, naturally). And while Jeremy adores the pirates’ lack of table manners and opposition to vegetables, he comes to realize that a life away from his parents lacks some of the niceties to which he’s become accustomed. Nobody tucks him in at night, for instance, and the only book available to read is a treasure map. Melinda Long’s story, narrated with a sense of boastful exaggeration by Jeremy, is full of a sense of high adventure that's lovingly evocative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tales. David Shannon's illustrations, full of a goofy vibrancy, are a perfect accompaniment to the story. (Ages 4 to 8) --John Moe(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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