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Title: Peter and the Starcatchers
ISBN: 0786854456
Author:
Ridley Pearson
Dave Barry
Publicate Date: 2004-09-01
Publish: 2004-09-01
List Price: $17.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Sucked us and took us on an adventure!
I shared the series with our kids, (5,7 &9). There were bits that caused all three to sit on my lap but they wouldn't let me stop reading. The whole series is well written and thought through. It engaged the kids from page 1 to very last paragraph. "Keep reading!" That's all I heard for all three books. Bravo, Mr. Barry & Mr. Pearson! It's having books like these published that keeps kids imaginations alive and well. My thanks!
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2: Exciting Kids' Yarn-But No Harry Potter
I purchased this book to read with my 9 and 15 year old boys this summer. Between vacations, sleepovers, and then back to school, we never finished it. But believing, as I do, that once you start a book YOU FINISH IT, I read it all the way through.
Being a 53 year old man, I understand this book was not written for me. In fact, due to the constant jumping back and forth between the three concurrent stories, in chapters that were often not more than a page or two, I felt like I was developing ADD from the read.
In my 53 year old self, I also bemoaned the lack of any internal dialogue, meaningful insight to the characters' motivations and intentions--in other words, no real character development. I also missed having the fine wordplay present in good literature.
Instead, this book has one clear goal--to tell an exciting, entirely plot driven story, with characters that kids would find fantastic, exercising powers that kids would find cool, in situations that kids would find strange and exotic.
In this goal, the book succeeded pretty well. The pacing is brisk, with the focus clearly and almost entirely on plot development. It was almost like a movie in words.
In conclusion, for me, this book is good, clean fun for kids--but hardly anything of the quality of, say, Harry Potter. Also, a Warning--to those who are reading this book looking for fidelity to the JM Barrie Peter Pan classic, forget it; there's really not more than just a nod to the original.
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3: very surprised!
I got to page 54 I think and the scene described was shocking! I put the book down and have not finished it! For a youth reader book, this was very inappropriate!
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4: amazing
I haven't finished the book yet but so far I have really enjoyed it. Its a book for all ages and you get sucked into the story right away. :) I can't wait to read the other books :)
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5: Fun series; I always wanted to know what happened to make Peter the way he is!
What happened before Peter Pan met Wendy? That's what Berry and Pearson try to address in this book. And it's a lot of fun to read about. This book is the first in a trilogy about the orphan Peter and the Starcatchers.
Peter and his orphan buddies are shipped off on a rickety old boat called the Neverland. They are going to be slaves to the king of far off country. Peter befriends a girl on the boat named Molly, who is a starcatcher. When Peter bumps into Molly near a mysterious trunk on the Neverland, things start to get crazy.
This book had lots of things that young children will love. Lots of action, pirates, falling stars, magic, and danger. It was a great book and a fun read. Some parts might be a bit scary for little kids. There is some walking the plank and people held at gunpoint; but it's all part of the wild adventure to obtain the magic trunk.
I look forward to reading the next book in this series!
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