Why are pirates called pirates? Because they aa AHRRR! Charlies football-mad family swap goalposts for the seaside & her brothers on a quest for a pirate adventure. Its all hands on deck as cannonballs fly & damsels in distress are rescued. But will Bobby ever find his hidden treasure? & will Charlie ever win him back to the football pitch? ...

Children will love dressing the historical figures in this collection of two popular titles from the Sticker Dressing series. Discover juicy details on how pirates really lived from Viking pirates in the first century to the Chinese pirates of the 1800s & travel back in time & find out what people wore long ago from Tutankhamuns elaborate body ornaments to Louis XIVs velvet robes. ...

Youve probably heard of a few pirates. Horrible Henry Morgan & his flaming fire ships; Awful Anne Bonny & her flaming temper; Barmy Blackbeard & his
- er
- flaming black beard. But have you heard that: Henry Morgan ate his own shoes? Anne Bonny scared strong men shirtless? Blackbeard guzzled his rum with a dash of dynamite? Now you can get the inside story from pirates long-lost log-books read the terrible truth about real pirate life & find out all about the biggest baddest buccaneers who ever sailed the bounding main! Horribly Funny ~ Horribly Gripping ~ Horribly Famous.

...

This title features a cackling crew of rogues & ruffians to colour from the cabin boy the cook & the carpenter to the cantankerous captain himself. You can find out all about life on a pirate ship: dine at the captains table slumber in a swinging hammock below deck with snoring shipmates endure mutinies marooning & shipwreck & take your share of the pirates plunder. Extra activities include designing a pirate flag drawing pirates step-by-step writing a treacherous tale of pirate skulduggery taking part in a treasure hunt navigating a maritime maze & discovering lots of interesting pirate facts along the way. ...

Ahoy me hearties! Join the Pants Pirates on a special treasure hunt. Grab your cutlass & sail on the Pirate Ship Black Bloomer past angry crocs sharks in fancy pants & through gurgling swamps on a quest to find…the Pants of Gold! This hilarious new addition to the phenomenally successful Underpants series will not disappoint. You'll be yo-ho-ho-ing until the sails come down! ...

Read along with author Jonny Duddle in this audio CD edition. The Jolley-Rogers family are moving to Dull-on-Sea a quiet seaside town. Stopping to fix their ship this pirate family get the whole town gossiping. Ignoring the grown-ups' disapproval Matilda from next door becomes friends with the youngest pirate son. When the Jolley-Rogers leave the town finds they were wrong to assume the worst
- the pirate clan have buried treasure in everyone's gardens (revealed in a stunning double-gatefold). Matilda feels sad until she discovers her own treasure
- a very special pen friend.

...

It is AD 79 & Mount Vesuvius has erupted destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina & her friends Jonathan the Jewish boy Nubia the African slave-girl & Lupus the mute beggar boy. When the friends discover that children are being kidnapped from the camps they start to investigate & soon solve the mystery of the pirates of Pompeii. A terrifically exciting & dramatic story packed with superb historical detail. ...

When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth- century West Indies they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave forced to work in a plantation mansion & subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited & rebellious English girl sent to the West Indies to marry well & combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young women have to save each other & run away to a life no less dangerous but certainly a lot more free. As pirates they roam the seas fight pitched battles against their foes & become embroiled in many a heart-quickening adventure. Written in brilliant & sparkling first-person narrative this is a wonderful novel in which Celia Rees has brought the past vividly & intimately to life. ...

Just make sure weve got plenty of hams on board. I didnt really enjoy our last adventure much because we ran out of hams about halfway through. & whats my motto? I like ham! It is 1837 & for the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain & his rag-tag pirate crew life on the high seas has gotten a little dull. With nothing to do but twiddle their hooks & lounge aimlessly on tropical beaches the Captain decides its time they had an adventure. A surprisingly successful boat raid leads them to the young Charles Darwin in desperate need of their help. & so the pirates set forth for London in a bid to save the scientist from the evil machinations of a diabolical Bishop. There they encounter grisly murder vanishing ladies the Elephant Man
- & have an exciting trip to the zoo.
...

To tie in with the DVD release of The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists this exclusive fully illustrated guide takes us behind the scenes to discover how 2012s hottest film was made. Packed with previously unseen visual material including storyboards & designs for sets & key characters this highly collectible full-colour book charts the journey from paper to screen: a five-year process for a crew of just 320 people
- requiring 3.000 storyboard images 19 456 square metres of foam board & 893 different mouths for the Pirate Captain alone. Also included are rare interviews with the directors producers & key members of the production team giving insight into the creative & technical challenges of a project of this size & ambition. The Making of The Pirates! is a must-have for the many fans of the film & for anyone interested in the methods passions & eccentricities of Aardman this most quintessentially British animation studio.
...