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From Mokie & Bik:
Mokie and Bik lived on a boat called Bullfrog. They lived in it, on it, all around itmonkeying 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 doorsplat!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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