Jessica's Book Thoughts

This is a wonderful book for reading outloud. I am really enjoying that I get to impersonate fishermen, some bully type children, sea creatures, an old lighthouse keeper, and a protective parent while I read this. The is a pelican who reminds me of Skuttle from The Little Mermaid. We have mystery, conflict, bullying, family legacy, and so much more. 

So far, we have a boy who almost drowned while trying to complete a swim to Dead Bone Island so he can become one of Blackbeard's Boys. He barily makes it. He is rescued by the lighthouse keeper and learns something very interesting about his father. We also have a little octopus who has been separated from his mother after a fisherman nets her and drags her away. He has teamed up with th pelican. They are on a rescue mission and have just located his mother's where abouts.

A fisherman's song from the book: 

"Oh how how I've dreamed of this day

When everyone will finally say

There he goes, the greatest fisherman of all!

Sharks, they've nothing but teeth

A dozen, I've caught in my sleep

They run and hide every time I set sail for the sea!

Whales I'll leave to Ahab,

That hunt is so boring and drab,

They're slow, it's really no challenge for me.

Some fishy the pound...

Casting their nets all around...

But not me, I'll hunt the worst of the sea!

Oh what a day it will be...

NOW everyone will be talking about me...

Bonicelli, the greatest fisherman of all!"

Warning:

If your child is sensitive to sad seen where parents are separated from their chilren, the scene where Walter loses his mom is really sad.

Walter, the little octopus, and Pucello, the pelican.