Go, Go, Pirate Boat

by Katrina Charman, Nick Sharratt (Illustrator)

Overview

An Amazon Best Book of the Year!

Little pirates will have endless fun with this vibrant board book that's set to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat!

Go, go, pirate boat,
Across the salty sea,
Raise the anchor, hoist the sail,
It's a pirate's life for me.

Join two seafaring pirates and their captain on a nautical adventure to find a treasure chest. Add to that a text that is read aloud to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat and you have a book that will be enjoyed time and time again!

Acclaim for Car, Car, Truck, Jeep
An Amazon Best Book of the Year

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781547603190
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Series:	New Nursery Rhymes
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	278,977
Product dimensions:	6.55(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Katrina Charman is the author of Car, Car, Truck Jeep and The Ninjabread Man, as well as The Last Firehawk chapter book series. She lives in England with her husband and three children. Visit her online @katrinacharman.

Nick Sharratt is the bestselling illustrator of over 250 books for children including books by Jacqueline Wilson, Julia Donaldson, and Michael Rosen. His instantly recognizable art style has delighted children for years. He lives in England.
www.nicksharratt.com
@nicksharratt1

Editorial Reviews

"Holds high appeal for little readers, and…the singsong-y, rhyming text will make it a highly requested reread." - Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-12-08
Two pirates and their parrot companion embark on adventures to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."

Following Car, Car, Truck, Jeep (2018), Charman and Sharratt team up again for this swashbuckling, musical tale. The two buccaneers and their parrot spend a day at sea engaged in such maritime activities as scrubbing the deck and hoisting the sail along with quintessentially piratical chores like digging up buried treasure. At the end of the day—which culminates in a nonviolent walk across the plank—the two pirates return home. Charman's rhyming text has a nice cadence, and thanks to the cover note to sing along to the tune of "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat," it moves along at a nice clip. For the most part, the rhymes work neatly into the tune so that it reads easily the first time through. Sharratt's black-outlined illustrations are boldly colored and eye-catching. The pirates themselves are not obviously gendered; one presents white and the other has light-brown skin. Most of the ocean creatures have anthropomorphized features—a mostly successful choice with the exception of the jellyfish and octopus, shown awkwardly with humanlike noses and smiles (and, oddly, eyebrows for the octopus). Overall, this one holds high appeal for little readers, and the nature of the singsong-y, rhyming text will make it a highly requested reread.

A perfect piece of treasure it is not, but shiver me timbers, it's fun. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews