It's Not a School Bus, It's a Pirate Ship
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A boy overcomes his first-day-of-school fears by imagining It's Not a School Bus, It's a Pirate Ship! Set sail on the high-seas with him in this picture book adventure by writer Mickey Rapkin and illustrator Teresa Martinez!
The first day of school means the first ride on the school bus. But who will I sit with? What if no one talks to me?
Luckily this isn’t a school bus, it’s a pirate ship!
And this crew has one motto: “One for all and all for FUN!” So set sail on a voyage across the high seas! And prepare to make some pirate buddies along the way in this adventure about overcoming your anxiety.
An Imprint Book
“Rapkin and Martinez build on the imaginative fun of It’s Not a Bed, It’s a Time Machine . . . Martinez’s whimsical flights of fancy fill the illustrations to bursting. Imagination conquers fear yet again.” —Kirkus Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The dedication to this team's buoyant follow-up to It's Not a Bed, It's a Time Machine speaks volumes: "For anyone who sat alone on the school bus." Whether readers have or haven't, they will eagerly climb aboard this playfully out-of-the-ordinary ride, along with a reluctant boy embarking on his first day of school. Instead of an empty seat, the boy finds a genial captain at the wheel and a merry band of swashbuckling kids, and his shivers disappear as he joins his crewmates for a "scallywag sing-a-long" and pirate joke-telling, wondering, "Why was I so scared? We're all in the same boat!" Martinez's digital art gives the bus a highly imaginative seafaring transformation and fills the ocean with waggish aquatic creatures, including a taco-eating dolphin, penguins sailing an iceberg, and flamingos sporting backpacks. On dry land, the teacher welcomes her students and invites them to take a seat on what appears to be an ordinary rug but is it really? Ages 3 6.
