The Adventure

Rip Squeak #3

by Susan Yost-Filgate, Leonard Filgate (Illustrator)

Rip Squeak and his friends set off on a maiden voyage aboard their sailing ship and soon find themselves adrift in a mysterious fog. This is the third book in the Rip Squeak series.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 2005

Reviews

[kezzie ʚ♡ɞ · Rating 4 out of 5]

✩ 4.3 stars
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i loved this book as a kid & now i read with my little brother <3

[Nathan Meier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great Rip Squeak adventure! The water looks so realistic! As far as the story goes I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was a little surprised, but it was done well. There was a little more suspense and action in this than in the other Rip Squeak books, but still a very nice heartwarming story. An excellent pair to The Treasure.

[Alyssa (HeartwyldsLibrary) · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute little story once again, this time Rip helps a creature learn that he can be whatever he wants to be, and not what others say he is.

[Erin Swinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The Adventure" is a fun book that I would place in the adventure genre and would read in grades Pre-K - 2nd grade. Yost-Filgate, the author, and illustrator, Leonard Filgate helps children to go on a sea adventure but at the same time is able to bring children to learn "not judge a book by its cover". The simpler story-line is great for the younger grades and the illustrations are perfectly tied in with the story and capturing the adventure that Rip Squeak and his friends are on. Ideas on how to use this book would be to allow children to pretend and become something that would want to be (example: pirate) and allow them to make a drawing of themselves as someone else. It would also be a wonderful idea to allow children to give positive attributes about their friends that each classmate could take home or make a book about each person with the picture of who they would want to pretend to be as the cover.

I believe that this is a WOW book because when I first started reading it I became intrigued by the story and wanted to know what kind of adventure they were really on and was already trying to decide how the story was going to end. I was pleasantly surprised how the story-line developed and would even love to read more of Rip Squeak books to see what other adventures he gets into.

[Stella Schaefer-Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Again such a cute book. The illustrated monster guy is kind of actually freaky.

[Corena Fitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this charming fantasy picture book, Rip Squeak, a mouse, and his friends find a sailing ship on a pond near their house. They all hop aboard the Adventure and become the crew of the ship headed out to find adventure. The crew is Rip Squeaks sister, Jesse, her doll named bunny, a kitten named Abby, and Euripides the frog. As they are sailing, the waters become rough and out of the waves pops the enourmaous head of a pond monster. Rip Squeak ends up falling overboard and lands on the back of the pond creature. The pond monster carries Rip Squeak to land and Rip Squeak tells the pond monster that he can’t be a real monster because he has just saved his life. The monster begins to cry asking, “Then what can I be? I look just like a monster.” Rip Squeak tells him he can be anything that he wants to be, that it is up to him. The pond monster, who nows tell Rip Squeak that his name is Salvador, carries Rip Squeak back to the ship. Everyone is happy to see Rip Squeak save and they promise Salvador they will return one day to visit.
The book uses color to set the mood when they first sail off for their adventure. The first couple of pages are full of dull greys representing fog and the unknown that they are about to sail into. The texture also stands out in the illustrations. You can see the thick fluffiness of the cat and the roughness of the pond waves. You can almost feel how rough and worn the ships floor boards are because of the great texture created with the painted on wood grain.
I would reccomend this book as a good read beacuse it shows Rip Squeak and his friends with a vivid imagintion. They are actually on a small pond, acting out this adventure as if it was real. Nursey age 5 as well as primary age 6-7 can relate to this story because of their own pretend play. It is also charming because the characters are animals that are pretending, not real children. The choice of the animal characters is alo intriguing since two of them are mice and one is a cat. Finally it has a great message, You choose who you are.

[Madi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book will be great for my classroom. The way the boys turn something bad into something good will be a great learning opportunity and teaching opportunity when I finally become a teacher. I thought this book was great and really enjoyed reading it.

[Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

We can't get enough of this fab art.

[Adrini Chia · Rating 5 out of 5]

The only pirate ship-y book I've fallen in love with