Ladybird Skullabones Island: A Week of Pirate Tales


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Yo-ho-ho pirates! Young pirate fans will love reading about the exciting adventures of Captain Cutlass and the trusty members of the crew in Skullabones Island: A Week of Pirate Tales. This colourful ebook has a new thrilling tale to enjoy from Monday to Sunday, perfect for sharing with young children at bedtime and naptimes.




A Week of Pirate Tales


Book Description

Yo-ho-ho pirates! Young pirate fans will love reading about the exciting adventures of Captain Cutlass and the trusty members of the crew in Skullabones Island: A Week of Pirate Tales. There's a new thrilling tale to enjoy from Monday to Sunday, perfect for sharing with young children at bedtime and naptimes. Use the sturdy tab edges to select a day and enjoy a short five-minute story together!




Five Minutes to Bed! A Ladybird Skullabones Island picture book


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"But Captain, we're not tired yet! We're terrors of the seven seas! We're rough tough noisy pirates! Just five more minutes, please!" Captain Cutlass's crew aren't quite ready for bed yet. What jobs can he find to keep his trusty pirates busy? Why, there's washing to scrub and hats to stitch and cracks in the hull to seal with pitch! With delightful rhyming text, humorous illustrations, and read-along audio narration, Five Minutes to Bed! will help your little darlings go to bed and stay there.




Teatime for Pirates!: A Ladybird Skullabones Island picture book


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"But Captain, what's this on our plates? We don't want this for tea! Sausages aren't pirate food. You don't eat those at sea!" Captain Cutlass's crew don't want to eat their tea so he has to convince them that sausages, carrots, peas and mash will help make them rough tough, noisy pirates. With delightful rhyming text, humorous illustrations and read-along audio narration, Teatime for Pirates! will help make sure every little pirate eats their tea! This enhanced ebook has read-along audio, too! Other titles in the Skullabones Island series from Ladybird Books: Yo-ho-ho (A Ladybird noisy book), A Week of Pirate Tales, All Aboard the Pirate Ship (A Ladybird Lift-the-Flap book), Pirate Playtime (A Ladybird sticker activity book), Pirate Time (A Ladybird clock book), How to be a Skullabones Pirate (A Ladybird sticker activity book), Five Minutes to Bed and Pirate Post




Rip Squeak and His Friends


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Two mice form friendships with an abandoned kitten and a frog when the owners of their cottage go back to the city at the end of the summer.




Pirate Post a Swashbuckling Tale with Real Mail


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The perfect pirate adventure, complete with envelopes to open and pirate post to discover, this wonderful story is part of the best-selling Skullabones Island pirate series from Ladybird. Captain Cutlass is returning from his annual holiday and the Skullabones crew need to make The Leaky Tub shipshape sharpish, as well as throw a 'welcome home' party for the captain. But their rivals, The Stinkyfish Gang, are determined to thwart their plans. Will the Skullabones pirates be able to outwit their enemies? Or will the Stinkyfish Gang best our swashbuckling heroes? With pirate memorabilia to discover and open in six fun-shaped envelopes, this is the perfect gift book for all little pirates! Other Skullabones Island titles to collect are: Pirate Time! A Ladybird Skullabones Island clock book, All Aboard the Pirate Ship: A Ladybird Skullabones Island lift-the-flap book, A Week of Pirate Tales: A Ladybird Skullabones Week of Stories, Yo-ho-ho! A Ladybird Skullabones 8-button sound book, Pirate Playtime: A Ladybird Skullabones Island sticker activity book, Shiver me Timbers! A Ladybird Skullabones Island sticker activity book




Pirate Nell's Tale to Tell


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From the author/illustrator team behind The Snatchabook comes a book-filled adventure on the high seas! Nell is finally a pirate! And she has her trusty Pirate's Almanac to help her sail the seas, even if Captain Gnash doesn't like books on his ship. But when the journey gets rough and the captain is in trouble, it's Nell and all her pirate knowledge that saves the day and leads them to the greatest buried treasure of all...




The Barefoot Book of Pirates


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A collection of tales from around the world which focus on the exploits of a variety of pirates, from the fierce and frightening to the friendly and funny. Suggested level: primary.




The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told


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A collection that includes both well-loved tales and little-known stories about pirates both mythical and real.




A Pirate's Tale


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Peter Mann begins his fictional life as a twenty-five-year-old newspaper reporter for the Halifax Morning Post in 1775. He and two female friends help a famous pirate escape from the Halifax jail. Realizing the three friends cannot go back, they join the pirateas gang. They eventually set up a Swiss Family Robinson type of existence in the Caicos Islands. Over the next six decades, through the American and French revolutions, Peter becomes the quintessential pirate, with a hook, a patch, and a peg for a leg. Eventually he becomes the patriarch of a huge trading company, Cocteau & Mann. Ironically, as his company becomes ever more successful, he is plagued by pirates and must battle them first hand. A Pirateas Tale tells it like it might have been. This marvelous historic fiction takes the reader on a swashbuckling roller coaster he or she will not soon forget.