Inside the room is a trunk and above the trunk is a floating rat.Īfter a few more days of poking around, Peter finally corners Molly and forces her to explain what is going on. One night, while foraging for food, Peter finds a cabin with a sleeping guard in front of it. On the ship, he meets a girl named Molly, who is accompanied by her governess and who’s father is on a different ship, the best ship in the Royal Navy, named “The Wasp.” Peter and his friends are stuck in a disgusting little cabin with hardly any food (the food they do get is crawling with bugs). Peter is an orphan and, along with four or five other boys, is being sent from England on a ship called “The Never Land” to some unknown destination. It’s the story of how Peter Pan became, well, Peter Pan. Peter and the Starcatcher book fits right into that category. There’s just something so thrilling about watching the pieces fit together when you already know what the end result is. I think Beauty (Robin McKinley) is excellent, and I love Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine). I think I’ve mentioned before that I really adore re-tellings of classic or widely-known stories.
This is a fun book and is the first book in the Peter and the Starcatchers series. Even at eleven-years-old, I trust his advice, so a few weeks ago (I clearly don’t trust his advice in a TIMELY manner), I picked up the first one at the library. Then, when I went home for Christmas, my brother was reading the second of Dave Barry’s juvenile books, called “ Peter and the Shadow Thieves.” I asked him how they were, and he raved about them. I love his non-fiction columns, so I was less interested in his fictional books.
For some reason, though, I’ve never read his novels, Big Trouble and Tricky Business. I’ve read practically every column he’s ever written and most of his books. My parents both adore Dave Barry, as does my grandmother, and they’ve been reading or handing off various columns and books of his to me for as long as I can remember.
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