2nd August 2012, Macmillan Children's Books
32 Pages, Hardback
Review copy
Themes:
new neighbours, friendship, imagination, pretend play, classic signs of
pirates, monsters, aliens, witches, lots of humour
Summary from Pan Macmillan
You never know who might live next door!
No one knows who lives in that house on
the corner, but when all those seagulls fly onto the roof, Sam Turner
says it must be pirates! In fact, Sam Turner tells his friends all sorts
of things: that they mustn't look at the pirate washing or they will
turn into jellyfish, that at night the whole house glows like an
aquarium, and that if the door ever opens a huge wave will come out. And
that's not the half of it. According to Sam, not only are there pirates
living on their street, but a family of monsters are moving into Number
2! Surely Sam Turner is just a little boy with a big imagination . . .
or is he?
Nayuleska's thoughts
Baby
mermaids are adorable! They are cute and chubby with little tails.
Awww! So very sweet. You might be wondering how that's related to
pirates but they are mentioned by Sam as being with the pirates. It was a
bit of a surprise who the new neighbour was.
The best part was the
white and pink cat, a really grouchy cat peering over a fence (I love
cats, for the record) and the last pages which were buzzing with Sam's
imagination in a clever way. I liked the various dolls used in the book,
with a young witch and a young girl exchanging dolls at the end. It was
the little details like an anchor on the house and a port hole style
window on the door which helped form this 10/10 read.
Suggested read
If it's pirates you're after try Pirate House Swap by Abie Longstaff
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