Pirates Love Underpants (Underpants Books Series)

by Claire Freedman, Ben Cort (Illustrator)

Overview

Grab your peg leg and your parrot—and don’t forget the underpants! This wacky picture book pairs pirates and underwear in an uproarious adventure.

These pirates SO love underpants,
They’re on a special quest
To find the fabled Pants of Gold,
For the Captain’s treasure chest.

This laugh-out-loud Underpants adventure is full of pirates, sharks, and treasure. You’ll be yo-ho-ho-ing with hilarity until the pirates conclude their zany expedition!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442485129
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Series:	The Underpants Books
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	641,652
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 11.12(h) x 0.34(d)
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Claire Freedman is the author of several picture books, including Pirates Love Underpants!; Dinosaurs Love Underpants!; Aliens Love Underpants!; Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones; One Magical Day; A Magical Christmas; Dilly Duckling, and My Grandparents Love Me. She lives in Essex, England.

Ben Cort is the illustrator of several children’s books, including Aliens Love Underpants and Octopus’s Garden, which have been published in eighteen languages in twenty countries worldwide. Ben lives in Bedfordshire, England.

Editorial Reviews

There's too little that's loony in this tale of piratical pantaloon-loving thieves, in spite of its cheery premise and art. Wearing their undies on the outside of their trousers, the "pants pirates" and their captain seek to locate the ultimate treasure: an underwear-shaped trophy called "the fabled Pants Of Gold." Their perilous journey takes them to an island where similarly costumed scurvy knaves have already claimed the prize as their own. In a bit of quick thinking, our antiheroes slice through their rivals' elastic bands, effectively curtailing their pursuit, and the booty is all theirs. A bizarre admonishment to young readers to always check the elasticity of their underwear caps off this subpar fare. If the text is tepid and the art equally unimaginative, the book does distinguish itself with its Briticisms. Originally published in England, the numerous unfamiliar terms for underwear (bloomers and knickers, for instance) make for impenetrable puns. Indeed, the most common name for underwear in this story is the uniquely British "pants"--a phrase that is bound to baffle Yank toddlers, for whom the word has a very different meaning. Be sure to keep your visit with this undergarment-obsessed pirate crew nice and brief. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews