Dinosaur Pirates!

by Penny Dale

Overview

"Rousing dino adventure with enough tooth-to-claw fighting for an exciting climax." — Kirkus Reviews

Our intrepid team of dinosaurs is back, but this time they are pirates in search of buried treasure! Having navigated their way to a desert island and dug up their booty, they are just sailing away when they are ambushed by a fearsome band of marauding baddy-pirates! Will our goody-pirates save their gold, their ship, and their honor, or will the baddies win out?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763693305
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	349,706
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 11.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Penny Dale is an internationally known best-selling children’s book artist and author and has sold more than five million books, with editions in more than twenty languages. She is married and has one adult daughter and a small grandson. She lives in England.

Editorial Reviews

Dale's vibrant and elaborately detailed pencil-and-watercolor illustrations breathe new life into these long-extinct rogues. This is a book that knows its audience and will suit the needs of pirate and dinosaur fans alike. Rousing dino adventure with enough tooth-to-claw fighting for an exciting climax.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2017-03-06
A dino yo ho ho and away we go! Having already covered cars, trucks, and rockets (Dinosaur Rocket, 2015, etc.), Dale ensnares preschooler's hearts and minds with yet another irresistible combination: dinos + pirates. In this latest edition to the series, the scaly scalawags take to the high seas. They're on the hunt for booty, and they've a map to lead them on. Told in rhythmic, not-quite-rhyming language, the simple storyline is punctuated by context-appropriate interjections repeated in threes: "Scrub! Scrub! Scrub!" (as the dinos swab the decks) or "Heave ho! Heave ho! Heave ho!" (as they haul a treasure chest out of the ground). Little listeners will certainly join in with scurvy aplomb. Things take a turn for the interesting when a band of scavenging pirates (appropriately cast as a pack of "rotten raptors") boards our heroes' vessel, eager to nick the hard-sought gold. A great battle ensues, and through clever trickery the raptors are defeated. Great merriment follows. While there is little here that is particularly original, Dale's vibrant and elaborately detailed pencil-and-watercolor illustrations breathe new life into these long-extinct rogues. This is a book that knows its audience and will suit the needs of pirate and dinosaur fans alike. Rousing dino adventure with enough tooth-to-claw fighting for an exciting climax. (Picture book. 3-6)

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