Peter and the Starcatchers
by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
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Author: Dave Barry, Ridley PearsonBrand: Harper Collins Publishers
Illustrator: Greg Call
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-25
ISBN: 078684907X
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Disney Editions
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- ISBN13: 9780786849079
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Peter and the Starcatchers
Book Review: Peter and the Starcatchers
Summary: 5 Stars
Peter and the Starcatchers
The book I am reading is Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry. This book is the prequel to Peter Pan the book. In the book it tells you how Peter got to the island Neverland. Peter is a young orphan who has to go work for an evil king. On the boat to the king, Peter meets a girl named Molly who tells him about the Starcatchers and the trunk that is on the ship. Peter has to battle pirates, learn to think ahead, and realize his purpose in life.
I liked this book a lot. It was a very exciting book to read because of all the suspense. It was made this way because of the way the author wrote it. The author switched perspectives in the story, so if one of the characters was going to attack, you would wonder if the other character will be prepared for the attack. I felt like I was in the book because of the author's description. The way the author described everything made you able to paint a picture in your head of what it would look like. I feel like a fly on a wall because the author is so good at describing what the scene looks like. The main conflict did interest me because that was the only thing that kept me reading it. I wanted to know who would win the battle in the end. The characters did seem real because the author described them as normal human beings, not like monsters, so I was able to imagine them because I had really seen people who looked like them, so I just had to recall them from my memories and I was set. The books ending was satisfying because in the end everything was okay. Everything turned out the way it was supposed to.
The author's voice in the story depended which perspective he was in. If he was in a pirate's perspective then you thought he was scary, and if he was in Peter's perspective then you thought he was clever. It all depends. The author used vocabulary in an interesting way because he used ship talk. He also spelled idiot, idjit. It made the book more interesting because no one ever says things like that anymore. Some of the unique characteristics in this book are that it is about pirates. It talks about people who are a extinct now, but back then ruled the seven seas. It makes this more interesting because no one ever talks about it anymore. The author's ability in this book to use dialogue is fitting for the story. When he is a pirate screaming bat his crew, you feel scared just like the crew must have been. The author's description in the book is amazing. The way the author describes each seen makes you feel like you are there. He makes you feel like you can touch the hard wood on the ship, or the soft sand on the beach. It is incredible the way he does it. The author's tone in this book shows the way each character feels, like when the captain of the pirate ship has the treasure in his hands, and then lets it slip, you feel his aggravation by the author's tone of voice. I really idolize the way Dave Barry writes because he is so good with description and amazing with dialogue, that I want to be as good as him.
I give this book a ten out of ten because I was able to say that I felt like the characters. I recommend this book because it was a really good book, and I want other people to enjoy it as much as I did. I recommend this book to anyone who loved the movie and the book, and want to know how it happened.
I enjoyed this book a lot because of its use of dialogue and description. I hope more people read this book.
Summary of Peter and the Starcatchers
Don?teven think of starting this bookunless you?re sitting in a comfortable chair and have lots of time. Afast-paced, impossible-to-put-down adventure awaits as the young orphan Peterand his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. Theyset sail aboard the Never Land, a ship carrying a precious and mysterious trunk inits cargo hold, and the journey quickly becomes fraught with excitement anddanger.
Discoverrichly developed characters in the sweet but sophisticated Molly, the scary butfamiliar Black Stache, and the fearless Peter. Treacherous battles withpirates, foreboding thunderstorms at sea, and evocative writing immerses thereader in a story that slowly and finally reveals the secrets and mysteries ofthe beloved Peter Pan.
Humorist Dave Barry and suspense writer Ridley Pearson have clearly taken great delight in writing a 400-plus page prequel of sorts to Scottish dramatist J.M. Barrie's beloved Peter Pan stories. The result is a fast-paced and fluffy pirate adventure, complete with talking porpoises, stinky rogues, possible cannibals, a flying crocodile, biting mermaids, and a much-sought-after trunk full of magical glowing green "starstuff." Ever hear of Zeus? Michelangelo? Attila the Hun? According to 14-year-old Molly Aster they all derived their powers from starstuff that occasionally falls to Earth from the heavens. On Earth, it is the Starcatchers' job to rush to the scene and collect the starstuff before it falls into the hands of the Others who use its myriad powers for evil.
On board the ship Never Land, an orange-haired boy named Peter, the leader of a group of orphaned boys being sent off to work as servants in King Zarboff the Third's court, is puzzled by his shipmate Molly's fantastical story of starstuff, but it inextricably binds him to her. Peter vows to help his new, very pretty friend Molly (a Starcatcher's apprentice) keep a mysterious trunk full of the stuff out of the clutches of the pirate Black Stache, a host of other interested parties, and ultimately King Zarboff the Third.
The downright goofy, modern 8-year-old boy humor sometimes clashes with an old-time pirate sensibility, and the rapid-fire dialogue, while well paced, is far from inventive. Still, the high-seas hijinks and desert-island shenanigans will keep readers turning the pages. Greg Call's wonderful black-and-white illustrations are deliciously old-fashioned and add plenty of atmosphere to a silly, swashbuckling story that shows us how Peter Pan came to fly and why he, and his story, will never get old. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson
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