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Pirates and Princesses
Ivy and Fletch have been best friends since babyhood. But when they get to kindergarten, they discover that the girls play with the girls, and the boys with the boys; suddenly Ivy and Fletch find themselves apart on the playground, on the Princess Team and the Pirate Team. It isn't until Fletch steps in to rescue Princess Ivy from pirate capture that they realize they miss...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 15th 2011
by Dutton Juvenile
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It's inevitable with television and retail marketing that kids are going to associate certain play items with being a boy and others with being a girl. Ever notice sections of Toys R Us that are entirely pink? While it's impossible to avoid such displays, I try to be as gender neutral as possible when it comes to the toys my children (a girl and a boy) play with, the clothes they wear, the colors they like, etc.
That's basically the gist of Pirates and Princesses. Ivy and Fletch have known each o...more
That's basically the gist of Pirates and Princesses. Ivy and Fletch have known each o...more
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Pirates and Princesses is about a little boy Fletch and a little girl Ivy who have been the best of friends since birth. Then comes kindergarten where the boys play with only boys and the girls play with only girls. The Pirate team and the Princess Team.
A really cute story about how one boy and girl teach all of the others how to play with each other on the playground. A wonderful teaching tool for peer pressure, friendship and play.
A really cute story about how one boy and girl teach all of the others how to play with each other on the playground. A wonderful teaching tool for peer pressure, friendship and play.
My kids really liked this...esp. my 6 yo daughter who loves both pirates and princesses. Ivy and Fletch have been friends forever, but once they go to school they begin to make other friends and for a time will only play with children of the same gender...the boys play pirates and the girls play princesses. But Ivy and Fletch shake things up on the playground and recess is about to become a lot more fun!
Ivy and Fletch have been best friends since they were born.But when it came to kindergarden all the girls played princesses and all the boys played pirates.But Ivy and Fletch wanted to play together .One day the to friends showed the other children that boys and girls c
Ivy & Fletch have been friends since birth, doing everything together. When they start kindergarten, the boys play pirates with the boys and the girls play princesses with the girls so Ivy and Fetch are forced to be apart. They find that being apart is not much fun.
I did not like this book at all! It's getting 3 stars because my 10 year old really liked it. I get the point of the book and the message that it was trying to convey, I just didn't like it in the least.
Ivy and Fletch are best friends who learn about and overcome society's stereotypes for boys and girls at the tender age of five. Good story about friendship and independence.
Well done. Very well done. I like this portrayal of how boys and girls don't have to play apart.
Great book on boy-girl friendship for kindergarteners.
It was okay. I wanted to like it more than I did.
Unrealistic, IME, but cute nonetheless.
boy and girl friends forever
4.5
I'm placing this one on the "school-skills" shelf because it is about a boy and a girl learning to incorporate both of their favorite things into their recess shenanigans so that they can play together. I believe our storyteller read it sometime last year during our monthly PJ party.
Recommended Ages: K-2
Ivy and Fletch have been best friends since they were born but now, at age five, the boys in their kindergarten play Pirates at recess while the girls play Princesses, and the duo is split apart.
Ivy and Fletch have been best friends since they were born but now, at age five, the boys in their kindergarten play Pirates at recess while the girls play Princesses, and the duo is split apart.
A fun story about friendship between a boy and a girl who have always been friends, but find it hard to maintain their friendship when they start school. Fun pictures show off the playfulness of the tale.
It wasn't quite what I expected by the title, but I actually really liked it.
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