Boy Reading Pirate Stories by Norman Rockwell

January 29, 1921 Issue of The Saturday Evening Post

Boy Reading Pirate Stories, this Norman Rockwell painting, appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post published January 29, 1921...
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This painting was Rockwell's thirty-seventh overall picture featured on the cover of The Post and the first Rockwell cover in 1921. The Post featured a Rockwell illustration on its cover seven times in 1921.

Boy Reading Pirate Stories

In this painting, Norman Rockwell shows us excitement before television. Kids and adults read books for entertainment.

This boy is helping his mother in the kitchen.

He is peeling a bowl of potatoes. He is using a sharp knife. He has a bandage on his right thumb. Did he cut himself peeling potatoes?

He might well have cut himself with that knife. He is very absorbed in his book, The Pirate. We can assume from its cover that this book is about rough adventure. Just what a boy wants to read. He is not looking at the potatoes he is peeling.

Is his mother aware that he is not being careful with her potatoes? Is she watching and being amused somewhere off the canvas? She probably already knew to give him plenty of time for kitchen preparation work. Mothers always know...
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