Captain Scurvy's Most Dastardly Pop-Up Pirate Ship

by Nick Denchfield, Steve Cox (Illustrator)

Nick Denchfield’s intricate paper engineering combines with Steve Cox’s exquisitely detailed illustrations to create a fantastic pirate adventure – where a book quite literally becomes a ship! It a pop-up pirate ship – no cutting or gluing required! Treasure Ahoy! An adventure story over 25 hidden objects to find over 30 press-out play pieces (including self-assembly raft) a find-the-treasure board game Young pirates will love to read the story of the dastardly Captain Scurvy and then use the press-out pieces to hunt for treasure and stage all manner of piratical deeds aboard the high seas.

Hardcover

First published October 7, 2005

About the author

Nick Denchfield is a paper engineer whose books including a pop-up-and-play theater version of The Gruffalo, and Campbell's The Christmas Treasure Hunt. He and Ant Parker previously collaborated on several other Charlie Chick titles.

Reviews

[HeavyReader · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book for my nephew for his birthday. It was a big dilema. On the one hand, although pirates were cool for working outside the law, it's hard for me to get over the rape and the killing part of the legend. Is that violence a good example to give to my nephew? On the other hand, I knew my nephew would REALLY like this book and giving it to me would earn me cool aunt points. So I gave in and went for the popularity.

Ok, so there wasn't any sexual assault in this book, and there was a female pirate main character. It's sort of a clean-up version of what was probably going on with pirates back in the day.