Pirate Blunderbeard

Can the worst pirate ever win the Pirate of the Year Award...? Mum is making me take part in the stupid Pirate of the Year Award. All I have to do is fight an enormous sea monster, (doom), beat my oh-so-brilliant brother at something (please please please) and find the legendary treasure that no one has ever found EVER in the history of EVER (easy peasy, then). Wish me luck! Pirate Blunderbeard. Blunderbeard might be the worst pirate ever but he's also the funniest, laugh-out-loud fun for young readers of 7+ • Amy Sparkes is the award-winning picture book author of 'Do Not Enter the Monster Zoo'. This is her young fiction debut. • Ben Cort is the illustrator of the Underpants series with Claire Freedman, the first of which has TCMd over half a million copies • Laugh-out-loud content which delivers perfectly for a 7+ market • From Pugwash to Jolley-Rogers pirates are a perennial bestseller for the core 7+ age-group.

Can the worst pirate ever find his way home from the Island of No Return? My stupid brother has tricked me into the worst holiday ever… on the Island of No Return. I'm stuck herewith just a chicken for company unless I can find some treasure – then Blackbeard says he will come and get me (nice of him). All I have to do is follow a treasure map through a jungle full of pirate-eating creatures (no problem), into the deepest, darkest probably-haunted cave (not at all scary, not at all scary, not at all scary) and track down the hidden gold that is so well hidden everyone gets lost trying to find it (perfect). My life is ruined. Signed Pirate Blunderbeard. Pirate Blunderbeard might be on the worst holiday ever but it's also the funniest - laugh-out-loud fun for readers of 7+ • Amy Sparkes is the award-winning picture book author of 'Do Not Enter the Monster Zoo'. This is her young fiction debut. • Ben Cort is the illustrator of the bestelling Aliens Love Underpants series with Claire Freedman, the first of which has TCMd over half a million copies • Laugh-out-loud content which delivers perfectly for a 7+ market • From Pugwash to Jolley-Rogers pirates are a perennial bestseller for the core 7+ age-group Competition: The Pirates of Scurvy Sands, The Night Pirates, How to Train Your Dragon. Cressida Cowell, Jonny Duddle

Set sail with the funniest pirate on the seven seas in this hilarious adventure for readers of 7+ with brilliant pictures throughout from Aliens Love Underpants illustrator Ben Cort. Pirate Blunderbeard is on a voyage with his cousin Redruth and Grandpa Greybeard. Blunderbeard hopes it will be like a holiday cruise, ice-cream, deck chairs and maybe a bit of swimming. But Grandpa Greybeard is on a mission. He wants to get his favourite ship back from the Scariest Pirate on the high seas he wants Blunderbeard to help. What could possibly go wrong?

Set sail with the funniest pirate on the seven seas in this hilarious adventure for readers of 7+ with brilliant pictures throughout from ALIENS LOVE UNDERPANTS illustrator Ben Cort. When super-famous actor Jolly Roger comes to make a movie on Crossbones Island, Pirate Blunderbeard is determined to get the main part. He just has to convince Jolly that his pet chicken, Boris, is a parrot (oh dear), act alongside an evil Giant DeathClaw Lobster (eek!), and beat his crafty brother Blackbeard to the lead role... What could possibly go wrong? Pirate Blunderbeard might be in the worst movie ever, but it's also the funniest. Laugh-out-loud fun for readers of 7+. Competition: The Pirates of Scurvy Sands, The Night Pirates, How to Train Your Dragon. Cressida Cowell, Jonny Duddle