The Skeleton Pirate

Description

Shiver me timbers and swash me buckles. It's time for an adventure with the Skeleton Pirate! The Skeleton Pirate is the Terror of the Seas and he'll never be beaten! Until, that is, he gets beaten by an unruly bunch of pirates and thrown overboard. Down in the depths of the sea he embarks on an adventure with a beautiful mermaid, a whale with tummy ache and a golden ship full of treasure...Full of humour and irrepressible energy this is the perfect picture book for all would-be little pirates! David Lucas is an extraordinary new talent in children's picture books - in 2008 he was named as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators.

Reviews

"Really tickled me hearties" (Capt. Black Morty Rackham The Contessa's Dagger) * "Sink me and call me a bilge pump - a truly fearsome read!" (Capt. Fishbait O'Doule, Lady Ascuela's Night Doom)"

Author description

David Lucas is the internationally acclaimed author/illustrator of Christmas at the Toy Museum, Lost in the Toy Museum, Peanut, The Lying Carpet and Halibut Jackson. Born in Middlesbrough, he grew up in Hackney and studied at the Royal College of Art. He lives and works in East London.