Meet Captain Red Beard, Bones the sea dog, Fingers the parrot and the rest of the sea-loving pirate crew aboard their ship the Black Beast. It is expertly levelled to Book Bands ensuring that every independent reading session is successful in helping to turn children into confident and enthusiastic readers. It features character-linked fiction and thematically-linked non-fiction books to motivate children in their early reading. Every "Pirate Cove" book contains notes written specially for parents or LSAs, to help them provide meaningful support and encouragement to the child.

 

This book is part of a book series called Star Adventures .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

This book was published 2008 by Pearson Education Limited .

Alison Hawes is a freelance writer specializing in fiction and non-fiction for children. She has been a school teacher, a classroom assistant, and playgroup helper but now writes full time. She has written over 80 books for schools, stories and articles for BBC Playdays. LISA THOMPSON is the bestselling author of The Goldfish Boy and The Light Jar. The Goldfish Boy was a Waterstones children's Book of the Month and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, the Branford Boase Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Before becoming a novelist, Lisa worked as a broadcast assistant for BBC Radio 2 and CPL Productions, where she says she made tea for lots of famous people.