A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas, a gift was sent to me… a parrot in a palm tree!
Written by Philip Yates
Illustrated by Sebastia Serra
Published by Sterling Children’s Books
ISBN: 9782454916826
This clever re-imagining of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” carol has a piratical twist filled with holiday excitement. A brave cabin boy receives mysterious gifts for each of the twelve days he is left alone to guard the pirate ship. Who is secretly delivering all of this buccaneer booty?
Shiver me timbers, matey, that’s up to you to find out!
Boo Roo and Tigger Too’s thoughts…
A pirate twist on the traditional twelve days of Christmas which is beautifully illustrated throughout. With each new day there is something new from the pirate world to be added to the rhyme, from Jolly Rogers, gold coins and singing mermaids.
Tigger really enjoyed this book, pirates always seem to capture little boys imaginations and he loved counting out the different things on each of the pages.
It was lovely to see that there was a pirate glossary included at the back of the book so that children could understand what the pirate words meant.
Price and Availability
A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas is priced at £4.62 (paperback) or £9.74 (hardback), available from Amazon and all other good book retailers.
Giveaway
To get you all in the Christmas spirit Boo Roo and Tigger Too are lucky enough to have an additional copy of A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas to giveaway to one lucky reader.
To enter simply leave me a comment telling me what your pirate name would be, then complete the Gleam widget below:
A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas by Philip Yates
Disclosure: We received a copy of A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas FOC for the purpose of review
