The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon

by Jonny Duddle, Jonny Duddle (Illustrator)

Overview

Ahoy, me hearties! Matilda and the Pirates Next Door return in a series of illustrated stories for young readers.

Every full moon, a mysterious ship is seen off the coast of Dull-on-Sea. Then, the next day, gold and jewelry are missing from homes, shops, and museums all over town. Matilda needs the Jolley-Rogers' help to investigate. Can Matilda and Jim Lad retrieve the stolen booty from the mysterious ship before the moon fades? Or will they end up stuck on board with a crew of ghostly pirates forever?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763691967
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	08/02/2016
Series:	Jolley-Rogers
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	182 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Jonny Duddle is the author-illustrator of the hugely successful picture books The Pirate Cruncher, The Pirates Next Door, and The King of Space. The Pirates Next Door has sold over 100,000 copies in paperback in the U.K. and won the 2012 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Jonny Duddle also worked as a character designer for Aardman Animation's Oscar-nominated film The Pirates! He lives in Wales with his wife and two young children.

Editorial Reviews

Duddle punctuates his larger-than-average prose with theatrical verse ("Some say we're cursed, some say we're dead! / We're in search of a key as you sleep in bed!") and tucks in plenty of elaborately detailed monochrome illustrations featuring a likewise monochrome cast of comically clueless white landlubbers and leering corsairs in classic pirate garb. A rousingly melodramatic face-off ends as it should, whereupon the Jolley-Rogers sail off once again...A pleaser for young swashbucklers.
—Kirkus Reviews

This early chapter book is full of intrigue, spookiness, and pirate tales that will capture the attention of emerging and struggling readers. Gray-scale illustrations show Duddle’s attention to artistic detail, and his creative use of black backgrounds and white text whenever characters are plunged into darkness heightens the feel of danger and excitement. More adventures ahoy! Book two, The Jolley-Rogers and the Cave of Doom, publishes simultaneously.
—Booklist

The Jolley-Rogers is distinguished by its top-notch writing, original sea chanteys, dry humor, lively design and deliciously dramatic illustrations just right for a tale of salty ghost pirates. (The second in the series, The Jolley-Rogers and the Cave of Doom, is published simultaneously.) All aboard, me hearties!
—Shelf Awareness for Readers

From the Publisher

2016-05-04
It's living pirates vs. the other sort when ghost buccaneers repeatedly ransack the town of Dull-on-Sea.First met as picture-book Pirates Next Door (2012), the nautical Jolley-Rogers family sails back into view in a multichapter yarn—responding to young pirate-loving ex-neighbor Matilda's plea for help. It seems that every full moon brings dead Cap'n Twirlybeard and his knavish crew ashore in search of both plunder and a certain long lost key. According to Grandpa Rogers, only unlocking the sea chest that contains their scurvy souls can scupper the attacks. Can Matilda and her piratical friend Jim Lad find the missing key, keep it out of Twirlybeard's clutches, and sneak aboard the spectral pirate ship Black Rat to open the chest at last? Duddle punctuates his larger-than-average prose with theatrical verse ("Some say we're cursed, some say we're dead! / We're in search of a key as you sleep in bed!") and tucks in plenty of elaborately detailed monochrome illustrations featuring a likewise monochrome cast of comically clueless white landlubbers and leering corsairs in classic pirate garb. A rousingly melodramatic face-off ends as it should, whereupon the Jolley-Rogers sail off once again…and into the clutches of a trio of witchy "sea hags" in the co-published next episode, The Jolley-Rogers and the Cave of Doom. Now, it's Matilda's turn to come to the rescue.A pleaser for young swashbucklers. (glossary) (Fantasy. 8-10)

Kirkus Reviews