This week’s book is an oldie but a goodie. A long-term favourite of mine and Ashleigh’s, and Mitchell’s new favourite, it’s Pamela Allen’s I Wish I Had a Pirate Suit.
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I Wish I Had a Pirate Suit / Pamela Allen
(Puffin Books, 1989)
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We are BIG Pamela Allen fans in this house. We haven’t met a Pamela Allen book we didn’t like, and we’ve met a lot of them! In fact, when Ashleigh first started trying to read, she would always read the title of whatever book we were reading and then say, “by Pallum Allen.”
Our all-time family favourite is Bertie and the Bear (which I reviewed last year along with our other favourite books), but I Wish I Had a Pirate Suit is adorable for different reasons.
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| Adorable from page 1. Look at that face! |
Our narrator (pictured above) has an older brother named Peter. And Peter has a pirate suit.
Peter gets to boss his brother around as they sail the seven seas and bury treasure. He decides everything, from who walks the plank to who gets to eat the jelly babies.
It’s not fair. Nothing’s fair. This book is similar in tone to There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake*, but this time there’s no sympathetic roofbound hippopotamus who understands our protagonist’s pain.
It all comes good in the end…
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| Happy chappy! |
…But you’ll have to read it to find out how!
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Have you or your children read I Wish I Had a Pirate Suit? What did you think?
And do you have any recommendations for future reviews?
I have not read this one to the boys. They haven’t discovered the real delights of pirates yet but I reckon it might be time. I love oldies likes these. The ones we read when we were at kinder or school. So much nostalgia!
So much nostalgia, yet it hasn’t aged it all!
My girls love this one. Pamela Allen is quite the talent, huh?
She’s certainly made the biggest contribution to our home library!
It’s been years since I read this book! I can’t even remember how it ends!
MWAHAHAHA! Cliffhanger!
Looks gorgeous. We have only read Belinda here so far, so it looks like I have a lot to look forward to. I am writing children’s book micro reviews, so I am loving reading them all right now 🙂
Dani @ sand has no home
You can’t go wrong with her. I recommend Bertie and the Bear, Who Sank the Boat?, Mr Archimedes’ Bath and A Lion in the Night in particular, but seriously, it’s all gold. Australia Post shops have great value packs.
We haven’t read so many of the classics from when I was a kid. I need to get onto that quick stat!
Yes! Start here! It’s fab.
Oh, my boys would love this one! Will have to go and search for it! x
Please do! Hit Australia Post shops.
We love a good Pallum Allen book too! We have read this one (and many others of hers) over and over again. They’re wonderful! Love your book reviews.
Thank you Carla! And I love your comments on my book reviews!