Maybe It's a Pirate - Hardcover

Hindley, Judy

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565660161 ISBN 13: 9781565660168

Publisher: Thomasson-Grant, 1992

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Just before she drifts off to sleep, a little girl imagines that there are all sorts of fascinating things outside her bedroom door

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The often familiar nighttime apprehension of children grips the creative girl in this emboldening bedtime tale. Hindley's ( Uncle Harold and the Green Hat ) narrator, Emily, who speaks in a lilting voice, glimpses "a tiny little sparkle/ just behind the closet door," and peers at the keyhole from under her covers. She envisions the possible sources for such a star-like light--soon her blue sheet looks to her like an ocean with a castle, her patchwork quilt like a landscape with tumbling, multi-patterned fields. As the youngster conjures fairy-tale fantasies of a witch, a princess and the slightly scary, eponymous pirate, debut illustrator Young contributes watercolors that suggest the well-worn feel of rumpled sheets and the comforting company of favorite stuffed animals. Rather than cowering in uncertainty, Emily demonstrates--in loosely rendered pictures that match the tale's harum-scarum tone--admirable curiosity as she cautiously investigates the forbidding closet. Hindley's soothing resolution deftly dissolves tension, demonstrating that fear of the unknown can be conquered. Ages 3-up.
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