The Gingerbread Pirates Gift Edition

(Hardback)

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"Swashbuckling gusto and a poignant finish should make this a new favorite." Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Its Christmas Eve, and Jim and his mother have left pirate gingerbread men for Santa. Jims favorite is Captain Cookie, who carries a gingerbread cutlass and has a toothpick peg leg. Jim keeps him close by his bed. But late that night, when Jim is fast asleep, Captain Cookie step-taps away on a daring adventure to find his pirate crew and rescue them from that mysterious character hes heard about: a cannibal named Santa Claus. This masterfully illustrated tale, sparkling with all the excitement of a pirate adventure, is a new holiday classic.

Author Bio

Kristin Kladstrupis also the author of the middle-grade novelThe Book of Story Beginnings.She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

Matt Tavaresis the illustrator ofLady Libertyby Doreen Rappaport;Jack and the Beanstalk,retold by E. Nesbit;Iron Hansby Stephen Mitchell;Over the River and Through the Wood;andTwas the Night Before Christmas.He is also the author-illustrator ofThere Goes Ted Williams, Henry Aarons Dream, Olivers Game, Mudball,andZacharys Ball.He lives in Ogunquit, Maine.