Alan & Brenda Leonard

on 8/22/02 17:15, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

> << Any suggestions on good stories/movies re: pirates.
>
> I can think of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Swiss Family Robinson,
> Peter Pan. >>
>
> Pirates of Penzance has the great song "I am the Pirate King" which all
> pirate fans should choreograph and sing in their own homes.

You should see the entire Pirates of Penzance musical, really. It's
hysterical.

Lego has a pirate ship, and check the breakfast cereal aisle, because my son
ate enough instant oatmeal eventually to get a free little set from lego.
There's also a lot of pirates in playmobile.

DK's Eyewitness Books series has one on pirates. I think there are several
nice ones from Usborne and Dover, too.

brenda

priss_adams

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wrote:

> There's also a lot of pirates in playmobile.
>
My son got a big Playmobil pirate ship when he was five. It seemed an
awful lot of money but he really wanted it. He'll be 12 this year and
he and his friends (some of them a couple of years older than he is)
still play with that pirate ship every time one of them comes over.
That ship is in the running for best money ever spent on a toy around
here.

Priss



Helen Hegener

>My son got a big Playmobil pirate ship when he was five. It seemed an
>awful lot of money but he really wanted it. He'll be 12 this year and
>he and his friends (some of them a couple of years older than he is)
>still play with that pirate ship every time one of them comes over.
>That ship is in the running for best money ever spent on a toy around
>here.

When our two oldest sons were about 8 and 10 they played with the
Playmobil pirate ship at a friend's house at Thanksgiving, and by
Christmas that was still the only thing they wanted. So we bit the
bullet and invested in the ship. The boys are 26 and 28 now, and when
they were at our house for Easter they dug out the (now absolutely
*huge*) box of assorted Playmobil toys, including the pirate ship,
and spent *days* playing with them with their four young daughters.

Playmobil and Legos of all kinds are still the #1 favorites at our house.

Helen

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FUN Books has a section of pirate books and stuff in their catalog (obviously
they went through that kid phase, too <g>) including a special group at a 20%
discount. http://www.fun-books.com/usborne.htm about midway down the page.

When my youngest really got into pirates one of the things we found him was a
long narrow scarf that could be tied around his head. It was very
swashbuckling. <g> He still likes to wear it sometimes at ten, especially
while wearing his button down shirt printed with skulls and bones.

Deborah in IL

Gerard Westenberg

<FUN Books has a section of pirate books and stuff in their catalog >

They also sell the Swallows and Amazon series of books by Arthur Ransome. Two of the tiles in the series are directly related to pirates - my kids loved me reading them aloud - "Swallows and Amazons" and "Missee Lee"..Leonie


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