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The Pirates Next Door
by
Jonny Duddle
The Jolley-Rogers have traded in the high seas for suburban life.
Meet the Jolley-Rogers - a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. This unusual family soon has the whole neighborhood gossiping. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda becomes friends with young pirate Jim Lad. When the JolleyRogers return to sea, the town real...more
Meet the Jolley-Rogers - a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. This unusual family soon has the whole neighborhood gossiping. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda becomes friends with young pirate Jim Lad. When the JolleyRogers return to sea, the town real...more
Hardcover, 44 pages
Published
February 28th 2012
by Templar
(first published October 1st 2011)
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Oct 20, 2012
Veilchenmond
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Ein lustiges Bilderbuch,in dem es um Piraten geht die in das "Nebenhaus" eines kleinen Mädchens ziehen.Leider sind sie etwas skeptisch was die Piraten betrifft.Tja,mal sind sie zu laut,klauen Sonne und so weiter.Das kleine Mädchen ist die einzige die die Piraten sogar mag.Doch irgendwann muss sie bemerken das ihr Freund wieder auf See stechen muss.Ich finde es echt toll weil es mit viel liebe zum Detail gezeichnet ist.Auch wenn es ein Buch für kleinere ist,man muss es lieben!♥
When a family of pirates moves into the house next door, Matilda knows that her boring English seaside town will never be the same! Although their strange ways are off-putting to Matilda’s parents and neighbors, she embraces them wholeheartedly and strikes up a friendship with their oldest child, Jim Lad Jolly-Roger. While she is quite happy to learn more about pirate life, the rest of the town does not welcome their cannon-firing, plank-walking ways. However, there is more to the Jolly-Rogers t...more
Matilda lives in Dull-On-Sea. There aren’t many children to play with and she wishes for a new neighbour to be her playmate. Tilda gets her wish in the form of Jim Lad- a Pirate boy! Jim and his family move their pirate ship next door and do all the things that pirates like to do. The folks on the street are not so happy about this and want them out! Jim comes in to troubles at school too when he learns that his ways are not looked upon too fondly.
Eventually Mrs Bevan from eighty-seven takes a...more
Eventually Mrs Bevan from eighty-seven takes a...more
The Pirates Next Door - Starring the Jolly Rogers!
Matilda lives in Dull-on-Sea and life couldn't be more boring! One day the Jolly Rogers pirate family have to come ashore and they move into the house next door. Matilda is ecstatic as the family have a pirate boy her age. For Matilda life couldn't be more exciting! However, all of the residents of Dull-on-Sea couldn't think of anything worse. They spend the whole time gossiping about how badly dressed and smelly the Jolly Rogers are and think of...more
Matilda lives in Dull-on-Sea and life couldn't be more boring! One day the Jolly Rogers pirate family have to come ashore and they move into the house next door. Matilda is ecstatic as the family have a pirate boy her age. For Matilda life couldn't be more exciting! However, all of the residents of Dull-on-Sea couldn't think of anything worse. They spend the whole time gossiping about how badly dressed and smelly the Jolly Rogers are and think of...more
Wie eine frische Meeresbrise weht uns Jonny Duddle die Piratenfamilie Jolley-Rogers in die Kinderzimmer! Nach dem Abenteuer-Bilderbuch "Lecker Piraten!" führt uns der englische Illustrator und Autor nach "Schnarch-am-Deich" (im Original: "Dull-on-Sea") und hält uns mit witzigen, originellen Bildern die Fremdenangst - eine Angst, die jüngere Kinder (noch) nicht kennen - wie einen Spiegel vor.
Die kleine Matilda jedenfalls freut sich über die ungewöhnlichen, neuen Nachbarn und ihren lang ersehnten...more
Die kleine Matilda jedenfalls freut sich über die ungewöhnlichen, neuen Nachbarn und ihren lang ersehnten...more
The Jolly Rodger family of pirates moves in next door and a tough adjustment begins. Jim Lad doesn't wear shoes to school, the parents make the mailman walk the plank, and the neighbors are unhappy with the noise and huge ship in their town. Matilda, the young girl next door, is the only person excited about having pirates living in her boring seaside town.
The rhyming text will quickly become tiresome for adults stuck on story time duty. But really what bugs me is the message in this book -- no...more
The rhyming text will quickly become tiresome for adults stuck on story time duty. But really what bugs me is the message in this book -- no...more
Matilda lived a Dull-on-Sea, which was very busy in the summer and very boring in the winter. She did not have a lot of kids that lived around her and she really hoped that a little girl her age would move in to the house next door. It had been for sale for a long time. She had not idea how exciting life could be until a Pirate family moved in one day. They didn't act like anyone else in the town, dress like anyone else, or talk like anyone else in town. She thought it was so great to have a fri...more
The story is cute, but the illustrations are what really carries this book. The town of Dull-on-Sea is livened up by the arrival of a pirate ship, which parks rather suddenly in the front yard of a local house. While the ship is being repaired, the young boy of the family of pirates attends a local school and his 3-year-old sister gets up to some very interesting hijinks. The pirate grandpa refuses to leave the ship during repairs, due to bad experiences the last time he set foot on land, and th...more
Grades 1-3: Pirate fans will enjoy this story of Matilda, who lives in a small town where nothing exciting ever happens... at least not until the Jolley-Rogers family moves in next door. Suddenly, life is full of adventure, thanks largely to Jim Lad, who sports no shoes and an eye patch, and is accompanied by a wooden-legged dog. The grown-ups in town are not so keen on the new neighbors: they dress funny, they smell bad, and they don't even try to keep their front yard looking neat. Before the...more
We liked this one. The rhyming prose did not become tiring to this adult, and the pictures are very interesting to look at and find details in.
I noticed some reviewers didn't like the message they perceived: People didn't like the pirates, so the pirates gave them stuff, and then they liked the pirates. That's not at all how I saw the story. This is: Neighbors didn't like the pirates. Tilda liked the pirates. The pirates left treasure behind. People liked the treasure and said they missed the pi...more
I noticed some reviewers didn't like the message they perceived: People didn't like the pirates, so the pirates gave them stuff, and then they liked the pirates. That's not at all how I saw the story. This is: Neighbors didn't like the pirates. Tilda liked the pirates. The pirates left treasure behind. People liked the treasure and said they missed the pi...more
Ich besitze die deutsche Ausgabe von Jonny Duddles "Die Piraten von nebenan", welches am 1. Juni 2012 im Loewe Verlag erschien. Ein wunderschön vom Autor selbst illustriertes Kinderbuch, das auch Eltern auf ca. 35 Seiten mit seiner humorvollen und wirklich wunderbar gezeichneten Geschichte fasziniert. Jonny Duddle hat bereits ein ähnliches Buch herausgebracht und demnächst erscheint sein neues illustratorisches Meisterwerk.
"Die Piraten von nebenan" zielt auf die Altersgruppe der 4 bis 6jährigen...more
"Die Piraten von nebenan" zielt auf die Altersgruppe der 4 bis 6jährigen...more
A pirate family moves into the neighborhood. Matilda, who lives in the neighboring house, is fascinated and gets to befriend the Jim Lad, the pirate boy. The neighbors think this family is really strange and want them out of the neighborhood. At the end the pirates leave and leave some surprise gifts for every neighbor.
I liked this book, but mostly because of its illustrations that covered all pages from end to end. The colors were bright and there was a lot of movement in them. The end of the s...more
I liked this book, but mostly because of its illustrations that covered all pages from end to end. The colors were bright and there was a lot of movement in them. The end of the s...more
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What a great story and great illustrations to look at! The story is about a pirate family that moves into a nice neighborhood. The existing neighbors don't take kindly to the new neighbors... they look different, they smell different and they act different. But the little girl in the story likes that... she is ready for a change. And she's ready to look past their differences to become friends. A good message for young readers! But the pirates are not meant to be landlubbers and they soon push o...more
Apr 27, 2012
Katherine
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Teachers, children, people who like pirates
Shelves:
picture-books,
postmodern
I love this book, and the grade 3's I read it to earlier today were captivated. And of course it leads to the activity of making a pirate treasure map! Great for relief teaching :D
About the ending, I wrote this as a comment on another review*:
I felt a little like the leaving of treasure was almost a sneaky little move on the part of the pirates, a bit like an inside joke. I thought of it more as an undermining the townfolk. Even though the pirates aren't there to see it, the readers are, and we...more
About the ending, I wrote this as a comment on another review*:
I felt a little like the leaving of treasure was almost a sneaky little move on the part of the pirates, a bit like an inside joke. I thought of it more as an undermining the townfolk. Even though the pirates aren't there to see it, the readers are, and we...more
Another winner to add to the "No Fail" read out loud list!
Meet the Jolley-Rogers — a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. This unusual family soon has the whole neighborhood gossiping. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda becomes friends with young pirate Jim Lad. When the JolleyRogers return to sea, the town realizes that they were wrong to assume the worst when it is discovered that the pirates have buried treasure in everyone's yard. The ne...more
Meet the Jolley-Rogers — a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. This unusual family soon has the whole neighborhood gossiping. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda becomes friends with young pirate Jim Lad. When the JolleyRogers return to sea, the town realizes that they were wrong to assume the worst when it is discovered that the pirates have buried treasure in everyone's yard. The ne...more
The Jolley-Rogers have traded in the high seas for suburban life. Meet the Jolley-Rogers - a pirate family who is moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town, while they fix up their ship. This unusual family soon has the whole neighborhood gossiping. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda becomes friends with young pirate Jim Lad. When the JolleyRogers return to sea, the town realizes that they were wrong to assume the worst when it is discovered that the pirates have buried treasure in everyone's yard...more
Jun 24, 2012
Ellie Matthews
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Matilda lives in 'dull on sea' and dreams of a playmate next door, but when a pirate boy turns up with his family to wait for his ship to be repaired the neighbors are less than impressed.
This book is fantastic! I've read it to a class of children and two lots of children I've been babysitting for and they've all been absolutely spell-bound by the mixture of pirates, clever rhymes and wonderful illustrations. It's also a book that will appeal to adults reading because it is a clever spin on sma...more
This book is fantastic! I've read it to a class of children and two lots of children I've been babysitting for and they've all been absolutely spell-bound by the mixture of pirates, clever rhymes and wonderful illustrations. It's also a book that will appeal to adults reading because it is a clever spin on sma...more
Dec 02, 2012
Lyndsey Hurm
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
word-play,
culture-books,
fantasy,
setting,
emotions,
prediction,
repeated-phrases,
writing
This is a cute story about a Pirate family who moves to a new quiet town. At first the people from the town gossip about them and tell their children to stay away. One girl, Matilda befriends the pirate boy anyways. The pirate family ends up moving away after they buried treasure in everyone's yard. Matilda's treasure is a pen-pal! This book can teach children about making assumptions about other people, gossiping, and judging. I might read this to the class and then maybe give them all a pen-pa...more
Tilda, a young girl, wants a playmate and some excitement in her sleepy little seaside town. The Jolly Rodger's pirate family with ship, canons, and all move in next-door. But wait this is a small-town with a bit closed minded folk, who aren't quite sure they want pirate neighbors. After all, the boy doesn't where shoes to school, father has black teeth and nails, the ship is blocking Mr. Shore's sunlight ... and the list goes on with each gossipy tale getting bigger and bigger by the townsfolk....more
This book first came to my attention when it won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize in the UK. It is the story of a girl living in a neighborhood where all of the lawns are neat and tidy, until the pirate family moves in next door. They arrive complete with pirate ship, treasure chests and barrels of grog. There is a pirate boy named Jim Lad, his parents, his grandfather, and his little sister, Nugget. Jim Lad and the girl quickly became friends, but the rest of the community was not as welc...more
Great pictures, limp verse. A fold out ending that will get torn in no time by some pirate loving toddler. And speaking of the ending, I don't like its concept--no one in town liked the pirates because they were so different,so they leave treasure behind to make people like them? I'm not exactly the poster child for "books with a message" but that message stinks.
Kids will like it because it's a pirate book. It's just not that GOOD a pirate book.
Kids will like it because it's a pirate book. It's just not that GOOD a pirate book.
I would use this book as a read-aloud experience across grades K - 5. The plot of this book is interesting enough to teach children reading comprehension strategies such as predicting, and imaging. The vocabulary is not overly challenging, but the author used enough words that may not be in their current sight word vocabulary. Therefore, this book can be a tool for teaching strategies like contextual clues, looking-back, and looking-ahead.
This book could be used to help students understand the strategy of looking back to determine word or phrase meaning. Teachers could use it to model looking back and using context clues to determine the meaning of a word from the book. Students will understand how to look back when they see their teacher model the thinking and actions of the strategy. This would be appropriate for students in first through fifth grade.
This was a cute book. I would use this book to teach comprehension strategies to students. I would focus on what strategies a student could use when they come upon a word they don't understand. They can look forward or back and look at pictures to decode the meaning of a word. This book also makes use of rhyming words. I could use this to do a lesson on rhyming words.
A bright colorful picture book about pirates, whats not to love?! When a band of pirates move into town, the neighborhood is in an uproar over their strange savage ways. Together they band to abolish these scurvy dogs, who end up surprising them all. All that is except for a young girl who had been enamored with them from the start.
I was browsing in Barnes and Noble and came across this picture book and found a real treasure (pun intended). Brilliant artwork and I love that it ryhmed. Most publishers don't want to see picture books that ryhme but these books are flying off the shelves. Children need books like this one. Hooray to Jonny Duddle!
Cute book. Talks about pirates that move in next door and how everybody hates them, but the pirate boy makes a friend and there you see a cute little story unfold. I would definitely recommend it. Level 1 or 2. Not very many words on each page, but since they're talking like pirates, it may be a little harder.
I just loved this! The pictures are filled with silly little details for children to pour over. The characters are appealingly ultra-modern hipster pirates.
The story relates very well to a discussion I was just having with my husband about how easy we find it to immediately dislike people who wander. It seems that rooted society has this innate distrust of all things nomadic. I love how the Jolley-Roger family go about quietly changing people's minds. I love how the whole family is involved and...more
The story relates very well to a discussion I was just having with my husband about how easy we find it to immediately dislike people who wander. It seems that rooted society has this innate distrust of all things nomadic. I love how the Jolley-Roger family go about quietly changing people's minds. I love how the whole family is involved and...more
This book is so cute and funny. I would use it for a creative writing lesson. It would also make a great character lesson, to add life to the characters students write. The pirates have a personality the class could really learn from.
This would be a great book to talk about looking back strategies. These strategies include looking forward and backward in the text to discover the meaning of something. I would to use this book as a read aloud to also talk about rhyming words and have students listen to those ending sounds.
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Jonny Duddle has been a concept artist for Aardman Animations and created fantastic illustrations for fiction and novelty books, including ALIENOLOGY. He wrote and illustrated THE PIRATE CRUNCHER. Jonny Duddle lives in Buxton, England.
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