The Pirate's Bed by N. Winstanley

• Published in: The Deakin Review of Children's Literature
• Main Author: Junior Kindergarten Program, University of Alberta, Students
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Alberta Libraries 2016
• Subjects: The Portal; Tundra
• Online Access: http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/deakinreview/article/view/28433; https://doi.org/10.20361/G2WP5H

Winstanley, Nicola. The Pirate's Bed. Illus. Matt James. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2015. Print.Morning Class"I see a smiling mouth [on the bed]! It's smiling!""Why is his toe red? He has boo boos on his feet.""I liked when the pirate found an island. I thought there was going to be a treasure!""I liked when the pirate got a new bed.""I liked when the boy had pirate dreams!""I'm glad the pirate wasn't eaten by a hammer shark.""I loved the palm trees.""I like when the pirate got a new bed.""How is that bed inside the water? Why it got eyes?""I liked everything about this book!""I liked the hammerhead shark."Afternoon Class"The boy has pirate dreams!""The girl dreams about dolphins, jellyfish, crabs and starfish!""I liked when the boat crashed in to the rocks.boom!""I like when the bird visited.""I like those hammerhead sharks!""I had a dream about a bad guys eye that looked like that!""I like when the bed's eye peeked out of the portal. How did it do that?"["The illustrator drew him like that!"]"I liked that pirate ship.""Why was there a monster [waves] grabbing the ship?""I am very, very scared of this book!""I like when the bed went back and forth, back and forth in the storm."Reviewers: Students from the Child Study Centre’s Junior Kindergarten Program in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta