Go, Go, Pirate Boat

Description

Longlisted for the BookTrust StoryTime Prize 2020 Join two seafaring pirates and their captain on a nautical adventure to find a treasure chest. Add to that a text that is read aloud to the tune of 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat', and you have a book that will be enjoyed time and time again! Go, go, pirate boat, across the salty sea, Raise the anchor, hoist the sail, It's a pirate's life for me! Little pirate fans will have endless fun singing along to the tune of a favourite nursery rhyme and doing the pirate actions in this fun ocean adventure. With bold, colourful illustrations by the instantly recognisable Nick Sharratt and text by talented newcomer Katrina Charman - creators of the bestselling Car, Car, Truck, Jeep, which was selected for BookTrust's 2019 Pyjamarama campaign and distributed to 450,000 children across the UK. This sturdy, colourful board book edition is perfect for little hands and ideal for sharing - get ready to sing along!

Katrina Charman wanted to be a children's writer ever since she was eleven. In 2014 Katrina won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Undiscovered Voices Competition. Since then she has written several young fiction titles for children, and Car, Car, Truck, Jeep was her first picture book and the start of a series with Bloomsbury and Nick Sharratt. Katrina lives in a small village in Berkshire with her husband and three children. Nick Sharratt is the bestselling illustrator of over 250 books for children including books by Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Julia Donaldson and Michael Rosen. His instantly recognisable art style has delighted children for years. Nick lives in Sussex and is the proud owner of a gold Blue Peter badge.

Shiver-me timbers, what a sunny, sea-shanty of a book! * Armadillo Magazine * It's silly, bright and catchy. Very young readers will adore it * Independent on CAR, CAR, TRUCK, JEEP * Full of bright colours and simple rhymes, this is a fantastic re-use of a popular nursery rhyme and one that you can't help but sing along to as you read it aloud * CBI Reading Guide 2019-20 *