Pirate Small has a great idea to get the Jolly Bodger looking shipshape. A deck sale! The problem is that he sells everything, including the captain's precious parrot, and now he's in big trouble. 'If you don't bring her back by sunset,' hollers Captain Leggit, 'I'll feed you to the sharks!' Young readers will love the chance to join the pint-sized pirate in his thrilling race against the clock to find Polly Feathers. This is a rollicking piratical story pitched squarely at the picture book audience with lots of page-turning moments, funny episodes, quirky cameo characters and a really satisfying final twist. Jan McCafferty is a talented new illustrator and we are proud to be publishing her first picture book.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2008 by Oxford University Press .

Julie Sykes has had over twenty books published and she won the Nottinghamshire Children's Book Award in 1996 and 1997. Catherine Coe has been a children's book editor for more than 10 years. Jan McCafferty is the illustrator of such children's books as "How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids" and "How to Draw Princesses and Ballerinas. "