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Anchors away for an action-packed voyage with Pirate Pete & his mischievous, violet parrot.





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Ahoy, mateys! Pirate Pete & the gang are back again for another rollicking good time on the high seas. A new addition to the enormously successful Pirate Pete series, this book revisits our favorite characters as they set out on another adventure. This time Pete is in search of a crew for his new ship. He needs one that not only acts like a pirate but TALKS like a pirate. He "interviews" several applicants only to find they don't talk right! ...

Bring your story to life with the awesome dress-up items inside!

Ahoy there! Get ready for a swashbuckling adventure with

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Details: Two sheets of fun & colourful pirate print gift wrap & two accompanying gift tags. Ideal for: Perfect for wrapping
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This is a fantastic, new, padded hardback edition of this exciting & fun adventure, which challenges young children to answer a puzzle on every double page. Pirate schoolboy Joe is invited to join his Uncle Bill in a hunt for treasure on Deadly Isle. But crafty Captain Cutthroat is also on the trail & it looks like he may just get there first... Brightly coloured, detailed illustrations in a cartoon style, along with plenty of maps, guides & things to spot, help children become engrossed in this absorbing adventure story. Answers & hints can be found in the last two pages of the book. ...

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Captain Bluebelly & his loyal crew are the laughing stock of the pirate world when their ship starts to

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Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, & their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away from the cutlass-&-peg-leg stereotype of Treasure Island & Pirates of the Caribbean. The corsairs he meets in Somalia, Indonesia & Nigeria are armed with AK47 assault rifles, RPG-7 rocket launchers & semi-automatic pistols. They race towards their targets in speed-boats & board & capture vessels in a flash. They are violent, dangerous & ruthless
- they will stop at nothing to get the ransoms they have demanded. Piracy is becoming an increasingly serious problem that is not going away. As the pirates he meets stretch their operations ever further to new hunting grounds, Kemp finds out, often to his cost, how much of a force to be reckoned with they are.
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This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of remarkable men & women, such as Calico Jack Rackham, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny & Bartholomew Roberts, who chose a life of derring-do on the open seas over poverty & injustice in the place they were born. Covering every aspect of life under the Jolly Roger, & based on first-hand accounts by pirates & their victims, discover the secrets of how these outlaws & fighting men lived & died
- all too often ignominiously at the end of a rope. Broken down into themed sections, topics include pirate attacks, the cramped living conditions aboard their ships, the weapons they used & the code they lived by, plus a section on ruthless modern-day pirates who threaten seafarers today.
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Offers a history of piracy, from ancient times through the Renaissance 'privateers' such as Drake, with their Letters of Marque (an early example of State-sponsored terrorism), to the real & flourishing threat of contemporary pirates that patrol the less well-regulated shipping lanes of the world. ...

Freddies sleeping outside in his amazing pirate tent.

" No fairies allowed!" he yells when his pesky little sister,

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