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A Pirate´s Twelve Days of Christmas
Philip Yates
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Description for A Pirate´s Twelve Days of Christmas
Paperback. On the first day of Christmas, a gift was sent to me: a parrot in a palm tree! Ahoy mateys - Christmas is coming, and even pirates celebrate the holiday! This follow-up to the hugely popular A Pirate's Night Before Christmas offers a witty reimagining of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" - with a sly buccaneer twist. Illustrator(s): Serra, Sebastia. Num Pages: 32 pages, full colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AC; YBCS. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 255 x 281 x 6. Weight in Grams: 262.
On the first day of Christmas, a gift was sent to me: a parrot in a palm tree! Ahoy mateys - Christmas is coming, and even pirates celebrate the holiday! This follow-up to the hugely popular A Pirate's Night Before Christmas (9781402790010) offers a witty reimagining of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" - with a sly buccaneer twist. A brave cabin boy receives marvelously mysterious gifts for each of the 12 days he is left alone to guard the pirate ship: 12 cannons biastin', 9 mermaids singin', 6 Jolly Rogers, and so on - but who are they from? With impeccable rhythm and a lively sense of fun, Philip Yates and Sebastia Serra create a delightful world all their own.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781454916826
SKU
V9781454916826
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Philip Yates
Philip Yates is the co-author, with Matt Rissinger, of several humour books for children. His first pirate picture book for Sterling was A Pirate's Night Before Christmas, praised by Children's Literature as "a treasure in every way." Sebastia Serra hails from Barcelona, Spain, where he studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines and on television. Sebastia has illustrated a number of picture books in Spain and in the US. His work has also been displayed in exhibitions all over the world, including the US, Italy, Japan, China, and Korea.
Reviews for A Pirate´s Twelve Days of Christmas
Praise for A Pirate's Night Before Christmas “The crew from A Pirate's Night Before Christmas sails through another Christmas-tide romp . . . Serra's digitally colored pen-and-ink compositions are filled with swashbuckling action and create a rollicking holiday mood.” —Publishers Weekly “. . . this pirate crew is having such a grand time you'll get into the swashbuckling spirit in no time. Back for their second holiday high-seas adventure . . . the Black Sark buccaneers plan twelve days of Yuletide surprises for their cabin boy. The pirate lingo and raucously detailed color-rich illustrations add seafaring flair to this holiday standard.” —The Horn Book Magazine Praise for A Pirate's Night Before Christmas “The crew from A Pirate's Night Before Christmas sails through another Christmas-tide romp . . . Serra's digitally colored pen-and-ink compositions are filled with swashbuckling action and create a rollicking holiday mood.” —Publishers Weekly “. . . this pirate crew is having such a grand time you'll get into the swashbuckling spirit in no time. Back for their second holiday high-seas adventure . . . the Black Sark buccaneers plan twelve days of Yuletide surprises for their cabin boy. The pirate lingo and raucously detailed color-rich illustrations add seafaring flair to this holiday standard.” —The Horn Book Magazine