The Pirates Next Door (Jonny Duddle)

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The population of Dull-on-Sea is 2222 and the average age is 67. Can you find out these statistics for towns and cities in your local area? Could you use this information to create graphs, charts and word problems? I really enjoyed this book! I though that it was a great book with a great story as well as a good theme (moral?). I love how it rhymed and that it helped me to start better understand comic reading. I also loved that it is really good at teaching children that other people will have different opinions about others, but you can form your own opinions still, without judgement. Carry out some role-play activities based on the characters in the book. Carry out some interviews to find out how each character feels at different points in the story. This picture book has humorous rhyming text and pictures that combine the real and the fantastical, and could be an interesting way to explore ideas about prejudice. The true rebels were leaders like Samuel Willet, establishment figures on land who led riots against crown authority. It was the higher reaches of colonial society, from governors to merchants, who supported global piracy, not some underclass or proto proletariat.

I would recommend this book to a year 2 class in terms of being able to understand the language and concepts used. The book would still however provide adequate challenge for this age group.This book is fantastic! The language creates a lot of humour and encourages you to use your best pirate voice! It is a charming book about how people can overcome their differences. There is also a moral to the story of never to judge a book by it's cover.

Imagine that Tilda stowed away on the Jolley-Rogers’ ship when they left. Write a diary entry from her point of view. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana she is married and has two daughters. She and her husband, David, live in McLean, Virginia and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.a unique race, born of the sea and of a brutal dream, a free people, detached from other human societies and from the future, without children and without old people, without homes and without cemeteries, without hope but not with- out audacity, a people for whom atrocity was a career choice and death a certitude of the day after tomorrow. The book could be great inspiration for a literacy lesson as children could create their own pirate themed stories. It may further be used during a carpet time session to discuss the features of friendship and negative stereotyping. This could then be incorporated into a PSHE session about relationships, friendships and the wider community. Within the younger years this could be approached during a circle time session.

The JRs bring with them a pirate ship with treasure chests and barrels full of grog, which causes consternation among the neighbours especially when the Dad continually shouts 'Oo-Arr!' Grandpa stays on the ship drinking while a three-year-old 'Urchin' called Nugget is very rascally.

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Create an alternative version of the story in which a different family move into the house next door to Tilda’s house (e.g. a group of aliens or a family of astronauts). Write a list of similarities and differences between Jim Lad and ‘normal’ girls and boys. Why do Tilda’s family want her to be friends with normal children? Additionally, I think it is a great bedtime read between a parent/carer and a child. Due to the theme of the book I think it’s a fun way to encourage engagement in role play at home. Even the adults can get involved. Everyone finds dressing up good fun, especially when children are involved! A witness claimed this was not a spontaneous uprising but “a Design for some Considerable time past,” as the ringleaders had kept “a pyratt in their houses and threatened any that will offer to seize him.”