Portia is a reluctant princess, horrified by her father's idea of marrying her off to a boring prince. So rather than endure years of dull matrimony, she sells the family jewels, buys a ship and escapes to sea - with her ladies-in-waiting as crew. When Portia hear news that her favourite cousin is also being set up for an unsuitable marriage, she and her crew swing into action and set off to the rescue. Soon Portia's services are in high demand from indignant princesses worldwide. Pleas for escape are delivered by the ship's parrot, Squawk, to a P.O. Box - Portia Only. But while Portia's busy rescuing princesses, her own jilted groom has sent someone in pursuit of HER! Count Nasty's ship is on the horizon, and he's not giving up easily...

 

This is volume 1 in Portia the Pirate Princess .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Simon & Schuster .

Judy Brown is an illustrator of picture books and younger fiction. This is her first novel and begins a series featuring Portia. Judy is married with two children and lives in South London.