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From Mokie & Bik:
Mokie and Bik lived on a boat called Bullfrog. They lived in it, on it, all around it—monkeying up ladders and down ropes, over the wheelhouse and across the cabin floor.
"Twins!" their mother shouted, because the lines of her Art jiggled and jarred when Mokie and Bik played bumpboats. "Get out from underfoot!"
So Bik bumped Mokie out the door—splat!—into nanny Ruby's bucket as she was sploshing the deck.
"Twins!" shouted Ruby. "Get out from underfoot!"
So they sunned like seals on the wheelhouse roof for about twenty hours till Ruby finished sploshing.
Meet a pair of twins that will monkey their way into your heart!
Mokie is bigger but Bik is faster. They are twins, and they have a nanny Ruby that looks after them while their mom is Arting and their dad is on his ship at sea.
Whether they're helping Erik the Viking splosh his decks or learning to swim fast as fisk, these two are always overboard or underfoot!
Rambunctious and charming, Mokie and Bik are a pair you won't soon forget. Wendy Orr's buoyant language and Jonathan Bean's gorgeous, detailed pen-and-ink illustrations blend together in a book that is destined to become a classic.
Orr's (Ark in the Park) energetic if uneven tale introduces Mokie and Bik, feisty twins who live on a boat, where they are "always overboard and underfoot" and constantly "yabber jabber yackety gabber" in a dialect that only their nanny can understand. Their mother, a painter, is often "Arting" in the wheelhouse or riding her "botormike" and their captain father is off "illy-ally-o-ing" on his "ship-at-sea with clouds of sails." Though the narrative provides definitions for some of the twins' jargon, readers must decipher most of their jabbering, which kids may find off-putting. In passages filled with wordplay that ranges from witty to inane, the author chronicles the youngsters' harbor-side adventures. Mokie and Bik help a fisherman unload his catch of "fisk," after which they come home smelling like "icky sticky fisky bits" and their nanny "rub-a-dub-dubbed" them clean. Bik rescues Mokie by rowboat when his sister falls in the water while she "scotch-hopped" on the wharf. The fisherman ties ropes around the kids' middles to teach them to swim "fast as fisk" and Bik has a tug-of-war with a "normous scormous eee-normous fisk" that eventually pulls his rowboat back to the wharf. Making his chapter book debut, Bean contributes black-and-white illustrations that have a timeless feel and comically convey the siblings' mischievous spirit. Ages 7-10. (June)
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Martin Southworth
reviewed Mokie and Bik on November 04, 2018
Mokie and Bik
Entertaining, but somewhat semantically confusing story about twins who live on a boat in a harbor with their mother and a nanny named Ruby while their father is at sea. The twins are quite rambunctious and are said to be always "overboard or underfoot".
The narrative is often lyrical, but the juxtaposition of many of the syllables and odd made-up words could be frustrating for beginning readers, so I would recommend it be a parent and child read to help explain any misunderstandings.
The black-and-white illustrations are very detailed and I loved the attention to the little aspects of a nautical life. I thought that the picture of Erik on page 33 was very reminiscent of Mr. Whiskers from the Cranberryport series by Wende Devlin.
Still, if I was a bit dissatisfied with one thing with this book, it was that Mokie and Bik did not know how to swim. They are young, but I would expect that anyone who lives by the ocean in a boat would have swimming lessons from a very, very young age.
I have taught swimming and I know that young children cannot be unsupervised by the water nor can you assume that they will retain swimming knowledge, especially with a big break between seasons. But to depict these children getting into a dangerous situation and then finally getting their first (rather unconventional) swimming lesson seems almost irresponsible to me.
Our own girls had lessons year after year until it got to the point that they could not remember ever not knowing the basics of swimming and I would expect that to be more of the situation in this environment, too. I guess it's just my own bias, especially since I never took lessons until I was in college and as we lived for the first years of our daughters' lives on tropical islands near the ocean. I wasn't going to take chances with water safety.
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