Blackbeard the Pirate
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Cover Story
The poem on our front cover is taken from Figgie Hobbin by Charles Causley, with illustrations by Gerald Rose, re-issued by Macmillan (0 333 12078 7, £7.50) in May 1990. Figgie Hobbin was first published in 1970 and has remained in print ever since. We are grateful to Macmillan for help in using this illustration.
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A large-format softback chronicling the voyage of Captain Blackbeard's Saucy Mermaid and its crew of rum-sodden incompetents. Each page delivers a broadside of ludicrous nautical images accompanied by a fusillade of truly awful jokes. Here we meet Sinbad the Salesman flogging flying carpets, and Jonah complaining about noise pollution from between the jaws of the Prince of Whales. The treasure, as it was originally buried by an Old Sea Dog, turns out to be ... well, I'm sure you can guess. This book was immensely popular with my class of 8-year-olds, and will no doubt appeal to older readers in search of extremely light entertainment.
