Do Pirates Take Baths?

by Kathy Tucker, Nadine Bernard Westcott (Illustrator)

Overview

Bouncy verses combine with fun illustrations to make the perfect handbook for pirate wannabes.

Come along for a shiver-me-timbers sea voyage and find out all about pirates! Any young pretend pirate will want to know such things as how you get to be a pirate, how pirates capture a ship, and, of course, whether those rascally oceangoers take baths. The stars of this book are a crew of lovable fellows, jauntily painted in bright, splashy colors and brought to life in delightfully funny verse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807516980
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	09/01/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kathy Tucker has written several books for children. She grew up in the West, in Washington State, and she has one horse friend whose name is Fox. She now lives in Illinois.

Nadine Bernard Westcott has illustrated more than eighty books for children. She lives in Massachusetts with her family and one cat.

Editorial Reviews

A rhyming q&a format recounts the habits of a group of rowdy pirates, who dine on seaweed and don't wear underwear. Ages 3-6. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

PreS-K-Rolling motion characterizes both words and pictures in this pleasant book. Bouncy, six-line verses provide colorful, innocent answers to 13 childlike questions. Readers learn that pirates eat barnacle stew, scrub their knees with seashells, and dance the hornpipe every afternoon. Even when they seize a ship, they merely tie their captives up with ``good strong rope.'' Lighthearted illustrations add to the vision of jolly sea villains. Caricatures drawn with fluid lines and filled in with sunny acrylics show the men in constant motion. They toss food into their mouths, do cannonball dives into the ocean, and march across the plank to another ship with arm-waving, strutting gusto. Only when they are cozily swaying in their hammocks, dreaming of their mothers, are they still. Young children already fascinated with pirates will be pleased with the jovial picture this book paints.-Nancy Seiner, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

School Library Journal

This sprightly picture book gives the lowdown on those low-down varmints, pirates. Each two-page spread offers a new glimpse of their sometimes nefarious, sometimes silly actvities: "Just once in a while, / when they smell "very" bad, / they jump into the seas. / They use sea foam / to wash their hair, / and shells to scrub their knees." Whatever tricks the pirates may be up to, like capturing a rival ship, are lightly looked upon by Wescott's cheerful watercolors. They make pirating seem like lots of fun indeed.

Ilene Cooper

"The question-and-answer format and a large map presume a non-fiction authority that won't fool the audience for a minute, but will add to their fun. A good scratch for any story hour crowd itching for some silliness."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Rolling motion characterizes both words and pictures in this pleasant book. Bouncy, six-line verses provide colorful, innocent answers to 13 childlike questions…Only when they are cozily swaying in their hammocks, dreaming of their mothers, are they still. Young children already fascinated with pirates will be pleased with the jovial picture this book paints."—School Library Journal

"This sprightly picture book gives the lowdown on those low-down varmints, pirates. Each two-page spread offers a new glimpse of their sometimes nefarious, sometimes silly activities…Whatever tricks the pirates may be up to, like capturing a rival ship, are lightly looked upon by Westcott's cheerful watercolors. They make pirating seem like lots of fun indeed."—Booklist

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