- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; New edition edition (24 Jun 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140363270
- ISBN-13: 978-0140363272
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,021,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This hilarious adventure story features Captain Wafer and his fellow pirates. When the pirates kidnap a famous inventor they sail into no end of trouble. Unable to read, they land at the wrong island and, realizing the perils of illiteracy, enroll at the academy of the dreaded Dr Silkwood.
About the Author
Margaret Mahy's many books - picture books, short stories, and fiction for teenagers as well as younger children - have been hugely successful all round the world and she is indisputably one of the most popular and successful twentieth-century children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal and many other awards, and has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She lives in New Zealand.
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Format:Paperback
This book is utter madness. It's full of lunacies great and small, from the 1001 Islands, including one made entirely out of dessert, to one of the pirates' tin ears, to the encyclopaedia salesman thrown out to see in a blue suitcase and later rescued, to the extra strong gingerbread... it's absolutely packed with them. The book is so wacky and imaginative it's impossible to warm to it. It's light-hearted, easy going and all round good fun. It's amusing and it's witty. Children will love it for the colourful world the author creates, and adults will love it for the same reason - few books have this much imagination condensed into such a small space.
Format:Hardcover
... I remember when I was a kid listening to this on talking books. It's better than Harry Potter (but in a very similar vein). Just to let you know what happens in this book, there is a witch called Mrs Mangle (amusing to me at the time because of a certain Australian soap-opera) two identical twins separated at birth, one of whom is a millionaire inventor - Humbert Cash-Cash - and the other is the son of a sweet maker. Anyway the crew of the sinfull sausage - the pirates - plot to capture the inventor, but land on the wrong island and pick up his identical twin. What a story, honsetly, my memory is so clouded but what I can remember is so brilliant and funny. ... please order it and read it to your kids. They'll love it.
Format:Paperback
This is an absolutely hilarious account of kidnapping, adventure, education and mistaken identity. I read it as a child and have returned to it countless times as an adult. It combines all the classic childrens books staples: pirates; orphans; school; desert islands; witches and dragons with some hilarious twists. keeps you laughing until the end. i would highly reccomend this book to anyone with a funny bone.
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