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Pocket Pirates #2
The Great Drain Escape (2)
A band of tiny squash-bucklers go on adventures of epic proportions in this second book in a brand-new chapter book series about pocket-sized pirates!
In the junk shop at the end of the street is a dusty old ship in a bottle. And when the world isn’t watching, a tiny pirate crew comes out of the ship to explore. They aren’t much bigger than a matchstick, but they have a HUGE appetite for adventure!
When the junk-shop dog moves in underneath the Pocket Pirates’ shelf, their route to the kitchen is blocked! The noise of rumbling stomachs is keeping everyone awake, and their last few stale breadcrumbs won’t keep them going long.
Do they dare to go…OUTSIDE?
In the junk shop at the end of the street is a dusty old ship in a bottle. And when the world isn’t watching, a tiny pirate crew comes out of the ship to explore. They aren’t much bigger than a matchstick, but they have a HUGE appetite for adventure!
When the junk-shop dog moves in underneath the Pocket Pirates’ shelf, their route to the kitchen is blocked! The noise of rumbling stomachs is keeping everyone awake, and their last few stale breadcrumbs won’t keep them going long.
Do they dare to go…OUTSIDE?
- GenresChildrens
144 pages, Paperback
Published June 12, 2018
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17 people want to read
About the author
Chris Mould
157 books54 followersChris Mould is the illustrator of Captain Beastlie’s Pirate Party, written by Lucy Coats. Chris went to art school at the age of sixteen. During this time, he did various jobs, from delivering papers to washing-up. He has won the Nottingham Children’s Book Award and been commended for the Sheffield. He loves his work and likes to write and draw the kind of books that he would have liked to have on his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and lives in Yorkshire.
Chris Mould spends his working day in one of the prestigious art studios at Dean Clough Mills in Halifax. His studio is clearly marked with a skull and crossboned warning as to what might lie within.
Chris is not confined to book illustration. He has worked for the RSC, the BBC, the FT and many other famous initials, aswell as film development work for Aardman Animations which included character and environment development work on the film Flushed Away.
When away from his studio, Chris spends most of his time with his wife Sue and his two daughters Emily and Charlotte.
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July 31, 2016
On a shelf in a little junk shop is a bottle. Inside the bottle is a ship – a pirate ship. On that ship live four pirates and their cat called Jones. This series follows their adventures.
Button is hungry. They haven’t properly eaten for days after the owner of the shop moved his dog’s basket ride underneath their shelf, preventing Button and his shipmates from their usual food foraging. Button decides he’s going to find some breakfast before the others wake up, and while the dog sleeps, he is soon on his way.
The others are soon awake and worried about him and they risk being the dog’s breakfast as they go after Button.
Outside is a scary place and when it begins to rain they are swept into a smelly, dark, scary drain. How are they going to get home again?
They have to face giant cockroaches, hungry rats, and a huge floating poo!
This the 2nd in this series that can be read out of order. Packed with adventures and Chris Mould’s funny b&w illustrations adding to the story, it would make a great read-aloud. Each book has a taster of another story in the series at the back.
I love this series!
Button is hungry. They haven’t properly eaten for days after the owner of the shop moved his dog’s basket ride underneath their shelf, preventing Button and his shipmates from their usual food foraging. Button decides he’s going to find some breakfast before the others wake up, and while the dog sleeps, he is soon on his way.
The others are soon awake and worried about him and they risk being the dog’s breakfast as they go after Button.
Outside is a scary place and when it begins to rain they are swept into a smelly, dark, scary drain. How are they going to get home again?
They have to face giant cockroaches, hungry rats, and a huge floating poo!
This the 2nd in this series that can be read out of order. Packed with adventures and Chris Mould’s funny b&w illustrations adding to the story, it would make a great read-aloud. Each book has a taster of another story in the series at the back.
I love this series!
February 8, 2016
For those unacquainted, Pocket Pirates are exactly as you’d imagine. They’re daring adventurers, treasure-seekers, and fire-side-tale-tellers. Their swords are darning needles, and their ship rests in a bottle on a mantle shelf in a dusty old junk shop. In their first outing, The Great Cheese Robbery, we learned that quiet though it seems, a junk shop is a very dangerous place when you’re smaller than a teacup. So imagine the thrills packed into this new adventure when we find the tiny crew not only in the great outdoors, but flushed down a storm drain, too!
Their return mission is filled with lots of damp smells, slimy surfaces and scurrying critters. Alongside the camaraderie there’s plenty of ‘yuck’ in this book, young readers will be delighted to hear. Each brief, exciting chapter leaves you eager for the next, so reluctant readers will love this story as much as voracious readers will. Like its predecessor, this adventure is packed with rich, inky illustrations (the chapter headings alone are brilliant) and all the curled corners, teeny tears, and tiny details only highlight Chris Mould’s obvious passion for the minutiae. It’s fantastic stuff, and I can’t wait to read more tales of these Borrower-sized buccaneers!
Their return mission is filled with lots of damp smells, slimy surfaces and scurrying critters. Alongside the camaraderie there’s plenty of ‘yuck’ in this book, young readers will be delighted to hear. Each brief, exciting chapter leaves you eager for the next, so reluctant readers will love this story as much as voracious readers will. Like its predecessor, this adventure is packed with rich, inky illustrations (the chapter headings alone are brilliant) and all the curled corners, teeny tears, and tiny details only highlight Chris Mould’s obvious passion for the minutiae. It’s fantastic stuff, and I can’t wait to read more tales of these Borrower-sized buccaneers!
October 21, 2016
This was the first Pocket Pirates book I have read. At times I felt I needed more to get my adult teeth into in the story but the illustrations and the details in the story engaged and delighted me. You could almost think he'd researched being a tiny person falling into a drain...
January 15, 2020
very funny
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