Pirateria: The Wonderful Plunderful Pirate Emporium (with audio recording)

by Calef Brown, Calef Brown (Illustrator)

Overview

Visit this one-stop pirate shop for all your swashbuckling needs, from #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Calef Brown.

Are you a Privateer?
A Mutineer?
Or a happy-go-lucky Buccaneer?
Do you need top quality pirate gear?
Well never fear,
Pirateria is here!
     Welcome to Pirateria, the most glorious pirate emporium on the seven seas! When pirates need superior wares for life at sea, they head on down to Pirateria, where they can find treasure chests (the very best), peg legs, planks, eye patches, head rags, vests, pantaloons—and even satchels and pouches for gems and doubloons—all at prices that can’t be beat. Creativity runs amok in this energetic, rhyming text full of beards and barnacles and plenty of pirate fun. Arrrr ya looking for a good price on big-buckle shoes—and a rollicking read-aloud about practical pirates? Look no further!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442438972
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	07/10/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Lexile:	AD720L (what's this?)
File size:	22 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Calef Brown is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Flamingos on the Roof, Tippintown, Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers, and Polkabats and Octopus Slacks. He lives in Maine.

Editorial Reviews

"An entertaining romp, even for landlubbers."

The Horn Book

"With the pep and flair of a slick sales pitch, this festive, fun read by best-selling author-illustrator Brown (Polka Bats and Octopus Slacks, 1999) features plentiful and playful takes on iconic pirate trappings and accoutrements. Colorful, animated, cartoonish art captures the busy chaos, and varying illustrative scenarios convey everything from items’ uses to snazzy ruffle- and eye-patch-wearing pirate shoppers and staff....

This one is a buccaneer-buffs’ delight."

Booklist

"Avast! This combination of nonsense verse and everything pirate is a guaranteed winner."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

One-stop shopping for all "swashbucklers and swashbucklerettes." Offering "[s]pinnakers, jibs, and rope in hanks; / solid maple walking planks" and arrays of specialty goods from eye patches to aRRgyle socks, this "wonderful, plunderful pirate emporium" merits a stop on every budding buccaneer's itinerary. Accompanying a hearty commentary that breaks into and out of rhyme but keeps to a rolling rhythm, Brown dishes up illustrations featuring an array of scurvy (if somewhat yuppified) shoppers of both sexes in nautical wear. They are browsing the Yo Ho Hosiery and Footwear department, sitting down in the food court with flagons and nasty-looking viands or accosting the glowering sales staff ("Where be the yardarm cozies?"). From pirate togs to treasure maps to night classes in map reading, here's the place to pick up anything piratical. Prices? "[W]e put the ‘arg' in ‘bargain'!" is the proud claim of this K-Mart for corsairs. Avast! This combination of nonsense verse and everything pirate is a guaranteed winner. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews