Jack Plank Tells Tales
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0068EWPGO |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Babbitt's spare black line drawings introduce each chapter and give readers some indication of the person whose story Jack relates. He can't take edibles from the sea because a shipmate once turned into an octopus and saved his life, and so on. Babbitt has a lively time with proper names (Leech, Snipe, Scudder, Old Miss Withers) and swiftly delineates character in short conversations at dinner. But at dinner each night, Jack reports to the other boarders his unsuccessful day. Trouble is, Jack is not well sui
From the author of Tuck Everlasting, her first novel in 25 years
E. R. Bird said Sing us a song, you're the pirate man. I was sitting at the children's reference desk the other day when a parent came up to me with a request. "I want a bedtime story to read to my daughter. Nothing cutesy or anything. Just some really nice tales to tell her before she goes to sleep. She's seven." Requests of this sort are a delight. You wait and hope for them. Not as many parents as I would like think to look for this kind of material, so when I get a request of this sort it's all I can do to keep from hopping up . Kate Coombs said A Piratical Pleasure. Well, Jack Plank isn't actually on board his pirate ship anymore, being a victim of cost-cutting measures--i.e., he got laid off. He now lives at a rooming house, where he manages to tell a story at dinner every night, always in connection with his ongoing efforts to find a new career (aided and abetted by a child, of course). I thought Jack Sparrow had spoiled me for every other pirate imaginable, but then I met Jack Plank and fell in love all over again. Not that Jack is glam. ' it's never too late to be happy.' What a wonderful book of short stories for children. I was attracted by the cover and borrowed the book to read for myself (after all, every middle-aged adult still houses elements of the child they once were, right?).In this delightful book with its lovely drawings are a collection of stories told by Jack Plank, unemployed pirate. Each night, over dinner at Mrs DelFresno's boarding house Jack explains why his job seeking isn't going so well. I was especially engaged by the rea