The Buccaneering Book of Pirates

by Saviour Pirotta

Overview

Ahoy, matey! Meet a larger-than-life buccaneer ready for adventure. This picture book follow-up to The Giant Book of Giants features a removable, pop-up pirate poster that's over four feet tall, with lift-the-flaps and pockets containing treasures tucked inside. Six vibrantly illustrated and action-packed tall tales complete the high-seas fun.
 
The six stories include:
Treasure Island  *  The Corsair Captain  *  The Captain's Secret  *  Davy Jones' Locker  *  The Pirate Queen  *  A Royal Pardon

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454904144
Publisher:	Sterling Children's Books
Publication date:	08/06/2013
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	10.40(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Author Saviour Pirotta is the bestselling author of over 100 children's books including a version of Aesop's Fables (Kingfisher) and the popular If You Love a Fairy Tale (Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated), illustrated by Susanna Lockheart. His work ranges from novelty titles for toddlers to short novels and collections of fairy tales. He lives in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England.
 
Illustrator Mark Robertson lives in England. His book The Sandcastle (Frances Lincoln Children's Books) was short-listed for the Children's Book Award and long-listed for The Kate Greenaway award in 2002. Mark's latest picture book, The Food Chain (Frances Lincoln), was short-listed for an English Association Book Award (Best Children's Illustrated Books 2009 category).

Editorial Reviews

2013-10-09
Avast! Hidden treasure--of a sort--awaits discovery by budding corsairs and cutthroat knaves who delve into this slender collection of pirate tales. Fastened to the right, me hearties, be a booklet with six superficial, sanitized retellings of public-domain yarns by the (unattributed) likes of Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island) and Daniel Defoe (The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton, here rendered as "The Captain's Secret"). All these renditions are much improved by Robertson's painted images of glaring buccaneers in colorful period dress and settings. On the left lurks a pirate in a box. Aye, unfolding to a height of slightly over 4 feet and printed on heavy card stock with grommets for hanging up is a piratical figure in full pop-out regalia. He brandishes a minisaber and poses with a dagger, a treasure map, a "black spot" (see Stevenson, above) and other items removable or otherwise keyed to the tales placed to the side or secreted in various pockets. A swashbuckling bit of storytime or bedroom décor, though not even Davy Jones would want the perfunctory plot summaries and recast scenes in the accompanying literary afterthought. (Novelty. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews