Pirateria
The Wonderful Plunderful Pirate Emporium (with audio recording)
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Visit this one-stop pirate shop for all your swashbuckling needs, from #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Calef Brown.
Are you a Privateer?
A Mutineer?
Or a happy-go-lucky Buccaneer?
Do you need top quality pirate gear?
Well never fear,
Pirateria is here!
Welcome to Pirateria, the most glorious pirate emporium on the seven seas! When pirates need superior wares for life at sea, they head on down to Pirateria, where they can find treasure chests (the very best), peg legs, planks, eye patches, head rags, vests, pantaloons—and even satchels and pouches for gems and doubloons—all at prices that can’t be beat. Creativity runs amok in this energetic, rhyming text full of beards and barnacles and plenty of pirate fun. Arrrr ya looking for a good price on big-buckle shoes—and a rollicking read-aloud about practical pirates? Look no further!
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Brown (Boy Wonders) makes an enthusiastic sales pitch for Pirateria, where "we put the arg' in bargain'!" His infomercial narrative beckons scurvy shoppers to queue up for "Spinnakers, jibs, and rope in hanks;/ solid maple walking planks.... And this just in: a fresh batch of eye patches!/ Two per package to prevent mismatches." (An eye-patch color chart offers options like "bilge water gray," "moby white," and "dreaded red.") The Yo Ho Hosiery and Footwear department offers single shoes for peglegs, and another aisle features message bottles, since "pirates expect to be shipwrecked." Grudges are to be left at sea ("Attention buckos, oafs, and toughs./ You'll walk the plank if we spy fisticuffs"), and grumpy buccaneers roam Pirateria's food court. Brown merges pirate lore and consumer frenzy in his upbeat, clever rhymes; he even lists a BOGO galleon special and a night class in "protecting your booty." His dingy paintings of surly scalawags become a bit monotonous prepare for a surplus of buckle shoes and bandanas, muddled purple grays and murky seaweed greens but pirate fans will yearn to shop here. Ages 4 8.
